What would you rule??
From 2+2 at:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27/brick-mortar/weird-floor-situation-live-250-tournament-1388820/"Without hesitation, Player A immediately shoves for ~14k. Player B sighs and starts to give the same annoying speech he gives in every hand he's been involved in. He starts saying things like, "Of course that flop..." and "Do you really have a queen?". Note at this time he's not counting out chips for a call, it actually looked a bit like he was leaning towards folding.
After about 45 seconds or so, player B says, "I have to call", then pitches his cards face up showing AhKh, after which he says "Show me the queen".
He didn't move any chips in front of him during this time though, and with the way he exposed his cards my initial thought that he was making some absurd sort of fold showing his cards. The dealer thought so too, and said "fold" before grabbing B's exposed hand and pulling it into the muck.
Player A, the older Italian guy, shrugs and turns over A7o, and the dealer begins pushing the pot towards him. However, once player B saw A turn over a worse hand, he turned to the dealer and said "Wait, that was a call". B begins to completely flip out at the dealer and the dealer said "I thought you had folded, and I mucked your hand. You didn't put chips out".
A shouting match ensues between the Italian guy and the annoying kid with both of them calling each other liars and various people in the room taking sides. Floor is called and reviews the story, and rules that since B did not simply say "I call", or
"Call", or
"I'm going to call", it wasn't technically binding, along with the fact that he didn't move chips out, and simply turned his hand face up.
Player B throws a tantrum about how badly he was robbed, floor warns him and said he's lucky they didnt award the other guy the entire pot. I honestly don't know the rule here. Is saying "I have to call" and exposing your hand binding?"