Floor ruling

[2Tone]

Got out of work early yesterday, enabling me to play some real-live, brick & mortar poker. It was a lot of fun to hold chips and cards after so much mouse clicking.

Played a two-table $30 buy-in NL tourney. Finished 6th, with top three paying. Ah well.

Anyway. About 3/4s of the way through, the big blind was a clearly inexperienced player. One player limped, and small blind completed. When it came around to the BB, the dealer said "Option," and, misunderstanding, he pushed his cards forward past the line as if to fold. His neighbor told him it was free to check, so he pulled his cards back -- they had not touched the muck.

The limper, somewhat of a table captain, insisited that the hand had been folded. The dealer called for a floor ruling, who said that since the the cards hadn't touched the muck, the player was entitled to keep his hand (which he later called another bet on and ended us losing more than if he had folded early). Given that this wasn't the WSOP and that the guy was rookie, I agreed with the floor, and thought the limper was being somewhat of an asshole.

Agree/disagree with the ruling? The conduct?