04-29-2009 14:20 UTC+2

Shallow Du-bai's Some Time

[user46298]

Dave 'Dubai' Shallow, sat at the media-surrounded Table Becker, just called for a ruling on an admittedly ambiguous raise from an opponent whose English was a little shaky.

Three players (Shallow in position) had made it to the flop of {8-Diamonds}

, building a pot of around 4,500 on the way. Boris Becker checked, and so did the other two.

The turn brought the {Q-Hearts}

. Becker checked again, the midposition player bet 1,000, and Shallow quickly raised on the button to 3,800. Becker passed and the bettor now reached for a 5k chip and threw it in, while holding up eight fingers. This was admittedly confusing. Shallow called the floor, saying, "He raised his fingers? You can't use hand signals in a poker tournament!"

The ruling was that this was indeed the case - now the argument changed to whether 6k was a legitimate raise or not. Just as the whole thing threatened to bore the other end of the table to death, Shallow folded.

Tags: Boris Becker Dave Shallow