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Originally Posted by albedoa
Tell!
Not a great story. At showdown reg tables a middle pair hand. Newbie turns over one card that makes top pair. Everything stops. Newbie asks dealer if he has to show both. Dealer pauses a beat, then says no. Newbie pushes his cards forward a bit. Dealer kills his hand and pushes the pot to the reg. Newbie is dumbstruck and doesn't have the confidence to object right away, then asks what just happened. Dealer explains and says it's too late to fix.
I probably should have immediately called for the floor. Even if they didn't do anything about it (which was likely imo given how insular this room was at the time) I would have felt better about myself, and made sure the dealer knew not everyone was cool with that move.
Sadly, it was a room I'm an infrequent visitor to, and even worse the guy was a good friend of a family members, so I kept quiet about it. I did my best to avoid that guy after that though, and definitely undertipped him. And now the room is closed anyway so not a problem I have any more.
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Originally Posted by steamraise
And that's really violating OPTAH.
Obviously, I disagree. The player knew what he wanted to do, and knew what he wanted the outcome to be, he just didn't know if those two things aligned with the casino rules. I am definitely not telling him anything about how to play his hand in this circumstance by telling him the two pathways the casino allows.
Even if he really didn't know what his options were, though, telling him those two isn't OPTAH violation imo either.
Agree to disagree I guess.