Even if the ruling is right by the rules it's a terrible one and needs to be changed.
This was an awful ruling. So basically making a verbal declaration (out of turn) is binding WTF!!!!
I was chatting to Jonathan Raab along with 4 or 5 players about this ruling and its just pure madness. It needs taking out of ALL Grosvenor rule books and burning.
People should not be enforced to put their chips in a pot when its out of turn action. Only if chips had passed over the line should a bet stand.
This ruling also affected the 250 freezeout for 1 hour, as I overheard somebody mentioning that this rule was also enforced on a different table to mine.
Found a few rules on the gukpt website
rule 35 All action out of turn goes. A player who bets out of turn will be penalised for that round only.
rule 44 Verbal declarations in turn are binding, verbal declarations out of turn will be binding if the action to that player has not changed when it is their turn to act, check, call or fold is not considered an action change.
I believe that rule 44 was used in this incident, however it seems still a grey area due to the fact that no amounts were mentioned.
It seems the common sense rule was thrown out of the window !!
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