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Originally Posted by Mr Rick
Then she took out her small blind of 300 chips and placed it in front of her cards to the right.
Placing chips in front of your cards is how 99.9% of other players call a bet. Actually, if you don't do that the dealer is going to tell you to move your chips forward if you intent to call.
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The ultimate irony was that the guy who still had cards was thinking about calling and most likely would have called if he hadn't seen the desire of the bettor to get the woman to call.
That's exactly the reason why as player A I would have called for the floor, too. The lady messing up directly impacted the 3rd player in the hand.
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Originally Posted by albedoa
There is exactly one player here who is trying to use the letter of the law to force an easily fixable error
The error was easily fixable if the dealer had tried to clarify action. Once that didn't happen the only way to fix the situation is to apply the obvious correct ruling.
Would you feel the same way if the player had verbalized a call and later said she misspoke and meant to say fold?
As you probably know from my posts in other threads I'm all for giving new players the benefit of the doubt and the opposite of a rules nit. But we can't ask for the floor to make a ruling that's so obviously against what the rule book says in a black and white spot.
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If I had been the Floor I would have ruled it was not a call and that she had to put the 300 in the pot
FWIW, among the 3 possible rulings, this one would be the worst to me. By far.