Ruling

[redsimon]

out of interst what if my hand was QQ or KK and i was playing cautiously in fear of 88

I think the point is the dealer did not hear you say call, therefore unless you had the absolute nuts, the situation is the same whatever your hand was or where ever you are, you can still be folding, it's just a (much) tighter the bigger your hand.  This is not really a dealer error unfortunately, it's your error for not putting your chips in to make the call and making sure you were heard when said the word call. 

by your theory my hand should still be dead if i roll 88, because he hasnt heard me, and then i should get a penatly for folding the nuts face up too

Look just put your chips in when you call in future, problem solved!

[kinboshi]

'Cal'l can also sound very much like 'fold', especially when accents, background noise, dealer not looking at you when you speak, etc., is taken into account.

If the dealer genuinely didn't hear you, or misheard you, the only way you can mitigate against this situation happening is to move your chips over the line and 'make the call'.  At DTD, if the dealer hadn't heard you and the floor was called over, then the same ruling would have been made.

Did you win, by the way?

[DMorgan]

Lesson learned, don't leave any of your actions open to interpretation/needing the dealer to be on the ball especially when you're working with a bad dealer. If every player did everything by the book with regards to betting and calling actions then situations like this would never arise.

[buzzharvey22]

if no-one else at the table heard you say call maybe you were too pissed to talk