part 3 of the Jim Kerrigan saga...
His big blind is called by an early position raiser. Two of them in the pot. This guy has been annoying Jim for a while - shouts when he wins pot, no grace, in short he's French.
Jim is holding
Flop
checkity check
Turn is
checkity check
River
Jim checks, French guy raises 4k.
Jim then asks him 'do you have sixes?'. To his astonshment he says no, I've got an ace but I'm worried about my kicker, its only a ten.
'RULING'!
Big TK saunters over. Jim asks him, 'this player has just declared his hand to me'
Protestations abound, everyone has an opinion. The eventual ruling after 10 mins or so of deliberation is that he has broken the rules by declaring the hand, but because he didn't know the rules, TK rules that the bet stands. But, if Jim calls and he has got AT, the French guy will suffer a penalty, although the penalty is not specified.
TK says he has ruled against Jim because he has tricked this player into declaring his hand.
Jim passes. No action is taken. The hand is not shown.
Nearly over, I promise....
Just catching up with the thread, but calling for a ruling here is pretty much angle shooting. If you didn't want him to reply AT don't ask him what his hand is!
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