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Originally Posted by Had2Call
How could the calling player not realize you had the much larger stack, 30k vs 12k, when you and the 12k player are sitting right next to each other? Sounds like he was trying to angleshoot so if he lost, he would claim it was 12k, but if he won he would take your 30k. But he got caught prior to the cards running out.
As an angle, it is an awful one, as no floor would ever rule in favor of the caller. If he calls, and additional cards come out and he loses, he is 100% paying the full bet.
Much more likely that the caller was either not paying attention, or was unable to see from the 1 seat to the 7 seat clearly enough to sight count the chips (a lot of players can't see well or are color blind. A 30K stack might not be bigger, size wise, than a 12K stack, so it might not be obvious to someone who can't see well which is the larger stack).
I put the odds that this was a deliberate angle by the caller at about 0.1%. Asking for a count when you can see the approximate values of each stack, hoping that the dealer would count the wrong stack, then calling the miscounted bet in the hopes that you can freeroll turn and river in the belief that 1) the dealer won't make the piots right before rolling turn and river, and 2) the floor will rule 'I call' does not mean 'I call' is a pretty poor angle shot.