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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
And furthermore, the rule you posted is for tournaments. OP was playing a 1/2 NL cash game.
I mentioned that in my post. Also, Bob Ciaffone, the author of Roberts Rules of Poker, stated on his website and the intro to his rules that it was his goal to have his rules and the TDA rules track as closely as possible, as he believed in the concept of a universal set of rules for poker. The thing is, Bob is old and his last update to RRop was somewhere around 2005, while the TDA has continued to update and refine their rules and procedures as the game has evolved.
But because they are a tournament organization, many have developed the idea that tourney rules and cash game rules are necessarily significantly different. But while there are a few things that make sense to differ on, most times the differences are just the result of one rule set evolving while the other one remaining static. As I mentioned in my post, I have played in rooms that have applied this same TDA conditional rule to cash games. There really isn't a good reason to have a different rule for that.
But ultimately, it's just house rules that govern. Again, my point was simply that it is not a 100% sure thing that all rooms treat conditional statements as nonbinding table talk, as many posters were stating. That may have been true at some point in the past, but the thinking on that has clearly evolved over time.