Originally Posted by gamer4life27  I asked this on yahoo answer's a while ago, but I want to see what you all think.
Now before anything, let me explain a few things. This tournament is exclusive, invite only. And you have to reserve you spot on the tournament. If your not within the top 20 reserved players, you can't play. This time, a few friends of friends came over. We looked them up, and the people who invited them said they were cool people.
I was playing a cash game with my buddies a while ago. It started with two tables, and I'm at the final table with a short stack (less than 5x BB if I remember). So I have some patience as I throw away rag cards for the first few hands. Then, I look down a QQ UTG + 2. Fold fold, and I take my minuscule stack and place it in the center and say: 'All-in' as the stack makes a loud thud noise.
It is folded around to the new guy two seats away from me who looks at me for a minute, then calls. It's folded all the way around and we flip them over. He shows AQ up against me QQ. I am just praying and hoping no Ace comes on the board as the chips are scooped into the center.
But the poker gods always have it in for me, as the flop comes out AA10, giving him trip Aces. I protest and say: 'Wow, what sucks!' and I throw my cards to the dealer in disgust, sitting on the other side of the table. While throwing them, they hit the muck and one card flips over, leaving one queen exposed and the other next to it in the muck.
I stand up, about to leave, when the person dealing deals the last two cards, J K for a split straight. I look back and think I have a glimmer of hope and try to split the pot, when the whole table protests. Half say that since my hand hit the muck, it was dead and the pot goes to the new guy. Of course, the new guy is also on this side of the argument. But the other half (including my friends and family and me) say that since I'm all in, and it's tournament, that I can't muck and the hand speaks for itself. And I add that the only card I need for the straight is exposed.
This is where they made the mistake, they call out another player who got knocked out earlier from the cash game into here. They decided that his decision would be treated like the tournament director's and what he says goes. They tell him the exact situation and before they can finish, he says: 'His hand is dead, theres nothing he could do about it. He mucked them.' I look at him in shock, as the new guy scoops the pot. I storm off in disgust complain that I should still be in, ect.
I want to know if what I thought was correct, or if the mostly cash game player is correct. I think his decision was based on cash game style, but I just want to make sure. |