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Originally Posted by madlex
You walk into the poker room, take a quick look at the house rules posted on the wall (that don’t tell you which chips play), sit down at 2/5 and decide to match the biggest stack at the table. That belongs to a guy who has $195 in red and one purple.
For the next two hours you play every single hand under the impression that guy has a stack of $695 which alters your preflop play significantly from playing someone with a stack of $195. Now you finally make your set against his overpair and snap off his shove only for him to tell you at showdown “sorry bro, you’re not getting that chip, haha”. Would you ever go back to that poker room?
I would want to know why he was allowed to have that purple chip on the table so long. The staff is supposed to regulate that and should have caught it. I'm assuming it was hidden because the staff didn't catch it. Either way, it doesn't change the rule. If you have a rule that says purple does not play then you can't allow it to play just because it wasn't noticed.
Question for you:
You walk into the poker room, take a quick look at the house rules posted on the wall (that don’t tell you which chips play), sit down at 2/5 and decide to match the biggest stack at the table. That belongs to a guy who has $695 in red with a purple chip at the bottom of one of them that you don't see.
For the next two hours you run your stack up to $1,200 and play every single hand under the impression that guy has a stack of $695 which alters your preflop play significantly from playing someone with a stack of $1,195. Now you finally make your set against his straight and are doubling him up only for him to tell you at showdown “sorry bro, you must've missed this purple chip, haha”. The floor comes over and says purple doesn't play, but I'll let it go this time because he has had it in his stack for at least 2 hours. Would you ever go back to that poker room?