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[QUOTE="Hsac, post: 5642505, member: 431663"]
Please tell us about any kindness you've witnessed, received or given on the poker tables.

A beautiful thing happened to me while playing an SnG online today. One of the other opponents took out another player and took down one player to 600 chips. The one with only 600 chips instantly left the game and became a ghost. I had 1200 chips and the others had well over 3,000 each and we were on the bubble.
 
I thought, cool. That player just gave up. Didn't even want to try. But as often happens, at least I see it a lot, when the blinds ate him up the ghost kept winning until I was in danger of blinding out. With all my chips except for 35 in the 300 big blind, the player on the button called, the small blind folded, and me with my Q6s, actually the best hand I'd seen in awhile, went all in for another 35 chips. To my surprise the player on the button folded.

I was shocked, knowing I had no fold equity in my raise. Then it dawned on me, he was doing me a kindness. He would rather someone who fights to the bitter end succeed, than let someone who gives up prevail.

That's something I'd never seen before, and I pledged to do the same for others who I find in the same predicament that I was in because I respect those who never give up much more than those who quit.
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