bogweed1964
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I played in the UK FT Poker Millions qualifier last night (top 27 all qualify) I was in 9th long stacked at 88k, blinds are 4k ante around 300, the field is down to 31, the player to my left is short stacked at 9k, he's been fighting hard but had some bad beats, I'm sat on the button and get dealt AA, the table folds to me and I raise to 8k, our friend sat on SB goes all in, BB folds.
Whether it was empathy with fellow table players, the fact I have been sat in his chair many times or that I admired the way he'd fought the last few hands and had such bad breaks I'm not sure but I could not bring myself to hit the call button, the clock ticked down and I auto fold.
2 hands later the bubble bursts, tourney over, qualified.
Afterwards I couldn't help think that my act of possible "charity" may have denied another player a qualification spot and in doing what I did I broke some unwritten ethical code somewhere. Sure our friend could have hit a set, 2 pair, straight or flush if I'd called, but my actions weren't out of "chip preservation", they weren't even poker based, I did what I did because I took pity on another player in a situation that would not effect the outcome for me.
Was what I did morally wrong? Your take on my actions and have you ever been in a similar situation?
Whether it was empathy with fellow table players, the fact I have been sat in his chair many times or that I admired the way he'd fought the last few hands and had such bad breaks I'm not sure but I could not bring myself to hit the call button, the clock ticked down and I auto fold.
2 hands later the bubble bursts, tourney over, qualified.
Afterwards I couldn't help think that my act of possible "charity" may have denied another player a qualification spot and in doing what I did I broke some unwritten ethical code somewhere. Sure our friend could have hit a set, 2 pair, straight or flush if I'd called, but my actions weren't out of "chip preservation", they weren't even poker based, I did what I did because I took pity on another player in a situation that would not effect the outcome for me.
Was what I did morally wrong? Your take on my actions and have you ever been in a similar situation?