Had an interesting night at poker last night and didn't see the outcome so wondering if any poker buffs can clarify..
Here's the situation. Cash table, about £400 in the pot, turn card comes and it's heads up with a regular against a pretty gobby drunk young lad. It's the regulars turn to play and he is thinking. Young lad then states 'If you put me all in I will fold'. They both have about £150 in front of them. The regular laughs, states 'All in', mucks his cards, reaches for the chips. The drunk lad also quickly calls 'All in' and turns over quads he got on the flop. Dealer states the regular as the winner. At this point all hell breaks loose with everyone shouting at each other, floor manager and two door staff turn up. The drunk guy as you can imagine is a tad het up.
They argue the rules and what was said for ages and eventually go away to listen to the recordings of the table and start asking exactly how much each has in his stack. At this point our table breaks down and due to the drunk lad kicking off we are asked to leave the area so never heard the outcome.
A verbal statement out of turn heads up in tournament play is binding I believe. Someone tells me even not heads up it is now binding but no one seems to know if that is true. There is also the argument the lad had more than the regular so he would only have had to call the all in so technically he hasn't been put all in.
Anyone got an opinion on what would have happened here?
Here's the situation. Cash table, about £400 in the pot, turn card comes and it's heads up with a regular against a pretty gobby drunk young lad. It's the regulars turn to play and he is thinking. Young lad then states 'If you put me all in I will fold'. They both have about £150 in front of them. The regular laughs, states 'All in', mucks his cards, reaches for the chips. The drunk lad also quickly calls 'All in' and turns over quads he got on the flop. Dealer states the regular as the winner. At this point all hell breaks loose with everyone shouting at each other, floor manager and two door staff turn up. The drunk guy as you can imagine is a tad het up.
They argue the rules and what was said for ages and eventually go away to listen to the recordings of the table and start asking exactly how much each has in his stack. At this point our table breaks down and due to the drunk lad kicking off we are asked to leave the area so never heard the outcome.
A verbal statement out of turn heads up in tournament play is binding I believe. Someone tells me even not heads up it is now binding but no one seems to know if that is true. There is also the argument the lad had more than the regular so he would only have had to call the all in so technically he hasn't been put all in.
Anyone got an opinion on what would have happened here?
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