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Originally Posted by chillrob
If someone wants to deliberately restrict himself and give his opponent an advantage by agreeing to call any bet, in a headsup pot of a cash game, I see no reason to disallow it. It's very similar to someone showing his cards in a headsup pot. While I think it's almost always poor strategy, I think it should be allowed.
I don't know if you have ever been to a fast food restaurant where they have computerized kiosks, but if not, they exist. And you're allowed to do stupid things like order a cheeseburger and then ask for no cheese, or hamburger hold the meat (and get a bun with ketchup).
It's tempting to shrug and say, "why the hell not, people can waste their money if they want." But when everyone does it, it's just annoying and inevitably slows down service because people who want to eat get slowed down by groups of teenagers going dude dude check this out.
So it is with these sorts of shenanigans. Whenever people are allowed to do stupid things, they do them out of curiosity / jackassery, but it's not novel and not funny to the people who just want to get on with the game. I'm totally fine with the people who are like "I have two pair, fives and fives" when they have quad fives, because quads are rare and if 10% of people who have quads say it, it doesn't add up to much. But if people are going to delay every showdown of pair vs pair or two pair vs one pair by a fraction of a second, it gets annoying very quickly.