Rule Dispute Leads to Name-Calling

Last night, for the second time ever in Greg's poker game, someone got angry enough at me to resort to name-calling. I made (as Greg called it) "an unorthodox move" to avoid implementation of a controversial rule. While I agree that my move was unorthodox, I don't think it warranted name calling, nor do I think it violated the spirit of the rules, especially given the controversial nature of the rule, the implementation of which I thwarted.

We were playing limit poker ($4/$8 limit HE, O/8 and (of all things) Crazy Pineapple, with a half-kill to $6/$12). I may post specifically about some hands in a later entry, but at the moment, I want to focus on the incident that led to someone calling me a "little bitch". (I'm a pretty portly fellow, so I was a bit surprised I was a "little" anything. :) ( I write in this entry specifically about the incident. )

( I follow it with a discussion of the specifics of the rules in question that led to the incident. Those who aren't as pedantically aware of poker hand-showing rules may wish to read this part first. )

( I follow that with a discussion of one thing I do above and beyond the requirements of hand-showing rules that I think is good for the game. )