Poker etiquette question

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Hi!

I encountered a rather weird situation during our home game (cash table 0.10/0.20€).

We are playing with the 27o rule- if you manage to win with 27o postflop, every other player gives you 2BB.

There are three players in the hand- myself and two of my friends. Villain 1 raises preflop, villain 2 cold calls and I defend my big blind. On the flop villain 1 bets, villain 2 folds and before I can do anything, villain 1 turns over 27o and celebrates. I let him know, that I am still in the hand and thank him for revealing his cards and I push all-in to which he obviously folds.

I start collecting the chips and he says that he thought that I folded because he saw how I threw my cards away, which I obviously didn't, I even had a chip on my cards to protect them.

And now to the main point- he said, that if I would be a man of honor, I would at least return his flop bet to him (which was quite big by the way) because he thought I folded and it was an honest mistake. But, I don't agree with this. It's poker, you need to be watchful and if everybody started to return the bets when somebody makes a mistake, it would get rather chaotic.

So, in your opinion, is it against the etiquette that I didn't return the flop bet to him?
 
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Small mistake- I was on the button instead of BB, but this is irrelevant I guess.
 
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It is the responsibility of every player to pay attention and know who is in the hand and what the prior actions have been. It sounds like he made a mistake, not you.
 
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No, you do not return his flop bet. If you start playing like that you are opening the game to angle shooting and other nonsense. He made a mistake and it cost him some money, maybe he will be more careful next time.

I used to love the 7-2 game, when it was an option on Absolute Poker. People go absolutely nuts trying to win with 7-2 or avoid folding to it,
 
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Sore losers should`t play poker,,pitiful.
 
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Yeh, sounds like villain was too excited about his 72o and not paying attention to the actual game.
Even a nice friendly home game needs to uphold the rules, no 'let-offs' or 'just this once'. This is angle-shoot territory and should be stopped before it starts.

Since there was no further discussion (at least from what you say there did not appear to be any) about the action(s) you took that made villain think you folded then it's clear enough that it's still on you to act.

Hope it didn't spoil the game.
 
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A friend would give the villain his money back. A true friend would refuse so that the villain may learn from his mistake and not do it again.
 
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Thanks for the replies!

FYI, he wasn't pissed in any way and the game continued in the same friendly manner as it always has been, it was more of a debate about the etiquette. :)
 
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