Wait, I thought PMs were explicitly not allowed in standups, and that standups are explicitly not status meetings.

You should tell my PM and manager this.

Also, what else are standups even for? Everything I've read or seen IRL is some bullshit about using them for teams to "align" or "sync up" or "share progress" or nine other euphemisms for status updates. Let's call a spade a spade.

Oh. Sounds like you're referring to Agile and Standup with capital letters. In my experience people talk about agile-with-a-capital-A and standup-with-a-capital-S and those two don't really match what actually happens in the real world, at least in my experience.

And poker planning is just a tool that is used internally in the team to fill in the sprint, and not promises to sales

Standups nearly always involve reporting status. At MPOW they involve short discussions on what may be blocking and who / what could help.