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I recently ran into a situation during a 25¢/50¢ cash game I was hosting and wanted to get your thoughts on whether it was an angle or not and how you would have dealt with it.
Here's the situation: We were playing towards the end of the night when the game usually plays much bigger. I had just lost an all-in and was down $275 for the night, so I decided to rebuy for $200. The announced buy-in for the game was $25-$75, but usually towards the end, we do match half-stack. However, I didn't announce that I was buying in for so much (the biggest stack at the table was about $900).
In a hand against a regular player who's very particular about the rules, we ended up going all-in on the river ($135 effective on the river). I called off with 2nd pair, thinking he was bluffing, and it turned out I was right. At this point, he started making a big deal about me having $200 in chips, saying that I shouldn't have so much since the max buy-in was $75. He claimed that he went all-in knowing how much I had behind but didn't want to say anything to avoid giving off the strength/weakness of his hand.
I felt like this was a huge angle, and I believe he would have expected me to pay off if he had the best hand in that spot. To avoid causing a scene, I ended up telling him that if he felt so strongly about the situation, he didn't have to pay off $100 of the stack.
What do you think? Was this an angle or just a misunderstanding? How would you have dealt with this situation?
Here's the situation: We were playing towards the end of the night when the game usually plays much bigger. I had just lost an all-in and was down $275 for the night, so I decided to rebuy for $200. The announced buy-in for the game was $25-$75, but usually towards the end, we do match half-stack. However, I didn't announce that I was buying in for so much (the biggest stack at the table was about $900).
In a hand against a regular player who's very particular about the rules, we ended up going all-in on the river ($135 effective on the river). I called off with 2nd pair, thinking he was bluffing, and it turned out I was right. At this point, he started making a big deal about me having $200 in chips, saying that I shouldn't have so much since the max buy-in was $75. He claimed that he went all-in knowing how much I had behind but didn't want to say anything to avoid giving off the strength/weakness of his hand.
I felt like this was a huge angle, and I believe he would have expected me to pay off if he had the best hand in that spot. To avoid causing a scene, I ended up telling him that if he felt so strongly about the situation, he didn't have to pay off $100 of the stack.
What do you think? Was this an angle or just a misunderstanding? How would you have dealt with this situation?