Friday, October 30, 2009

But who's counting?

An interesting dispute came up at our poker table Thursday night -- and we're not sure what the right answer is. Perhaps you do.

A woman bet 2,000 (as best we recall). A man then asked her for a chip count.

"I don't have to give you that," the woman said.

"Yes, you do," the man answered. "I want to decide whether to raise."

The woman then displayed her chip stack -- a very unsorted stack, since she had won the previous pot moments before.

"All I have to do is show them to you," she maintained. "Count them for yourself."

She called the display of the chips a "courtesy" to her opponent. What do you think of this? Our answer will come in an upcoming post.

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