Black Fishes Before Folding
Andy Black, playing from the small blind, took a heads-up raised pot with the button player. Each man checked a flop that rolled out . When the came on the turn, Black bet pot, which was 950. His opponent then tossed three blue (T500) chips into the pot with no declaration.
"Are you raising?" Black asked. His opponent did not respond. Black asked a second time, still without a response. Eventually, Tom Dwan offered an opnion that it had to be a raise because even though it wasn't enough for a legal raise (1,900), it was more than half of a legal raise (1,425). Finally, the button player said something.
"He made it 950?" he asked.
"What did you think I made it?" Black replied. The button player then completed the raise to 1,900, drawing a fold from Black.
"I think he made a mistake," Black said to Dwan after the hand. "I was just trying to find out if he made a mistake. I had nothing and no draw."
"I'm pretty sure he had a huge hand," said Dwan.
Black still has 8,000 in chips.