Shallow Du-bai's Some Time
Three players (Shallow in position) had made it to the flop of , building a pot of around 4,500 on the way. Boris Becker checked, and so did the other two.
The turn brought the . 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.