Stanko Lets Moore Off the Hook

Well, that was an interesting one. We'll do the best we can to describe what happened to you.

The pot began with Charles Moore limping in from the button, and Scott Stanko made a raise to 175,000. All right, all good so far. But things went awry when Moore announced, "Raise." He likes to put the call into the pot first when he raises, and that's what he did this time as well. But Stanko was a little too anxious. Moore's first batch of calling chips had barely hit the felt when Stanko announced, "All in!" Moore had not yet declared the amount of his reraise.

"What'd he say?" Moore asked. Stanko tried to keep quiet now, but the words had already escaped his lips. And now, after a few seconds, Moore realized it clearly.

There were two floormen right at tableside, so there wasn't any issue trying to figure out what happened. The ruling was that Moore was committed to make at least a minimum reraise, after which Stanko would be committed to his own reraise all in. Since Moore had declared his action already, it could not change before it got to Stanko, so his error was unable to be retracted now. Moore went ahead and put the 135,000-chip raise into the pot, but that was as far as he'd take it.

"Well, I don't have an all-in hand," he said as he mucked.

It seems likely that Moore got off the hook pretty easy there, as he was planning on raising significantly more until Stanko's premature declaration.

Tags: Charles Moore Scott Stanko