First thing off I'd like to make it clear that I did NOT personally see this go down, but my good friend did and he told me all about it. I believe it did occur 100%.
So I'm at Winstar Casino for this River series or whatever.
My friend is playing cash when he sees this confrontation go down.
Two guys are playing heads up 5/10 NL. They play a hand where it gets checked all the way to the river. One guy makes the nut straight on the river and bets what looks to be $25 (5 red chips), the other guy says "I call," only to find out that the bet is actually $520. This guy had tucked a $500 chip on the bottom of the 4 reds and then put it in to the pot in such a way that the purple chip was completely hidden from the view of the other guy. (They were seated directly across from each other, at both ends of the table.)
Note: At Winstar the purple $500 chips are not over-sized. They are the same size as all lower denominations.
So, understandably, this guy loses his mind when they tell him it's $520 or whatever.
He calls the floor, floor rules that the bet was $520 and was called. This starts a whole fight, the guy who lost comes at the other guy and eventually gets bounced and hauled out by security. Then, apparently this guy gets back in the casino somehow and goes after the angle shooter again! Security sees him as he's bolting across the poker room and jumped him. He fights back throwing punches and shit at the security guards until one of them whips out a taser and lights this guy up right there in the poker room.
Thoughts on this?
Obviously it was a pure angle shot, I mean this guy bet $520 into a $20 pot or whatever.
Should the floor ruling have been different?
Is this a spot to say "fuck it" and just get banned from the casino and not pay the guy the $520?
I see why the casinos started making the big denomination chips oversized now though.
The moral to this story might be to just always ask the dealer how much the bet is.
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