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Originally Posted by psujohn
If I'm all in for $180, another player asks how much and the dealer says $80 I'm speaking up.
There’s a good chance you don’t even realize the mistake. Dealer has his head turned towards a different player and you hear ‘one eighty’ instead of ‘eighty’ because you expect to hear 180,
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$180 can easily be mistaken for $80 if there's a black chip ($100) at the bottom of a stack of red ($5).
That would make the stack $175 not $180.
If anything, there could be a stack of 20 reds and another one of 17 chips where the dealer not only misses the black chip but also miscounts the number of chips because he doesn’t break them down.
It’s easy to accuse the player of malicious intent but there’s zero indication in the OP to not give him the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, it’s also possible that he got angled by the caller who was perfectly aware the stack was $180. If he wins the hand, he takes the full $180, if he loses he pays only $80 and goes home. That’s basically a free roll if you are OK with getting kicked out.