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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1642749, member: 23910"] A few things went wrong in this case. The dealer half-arsed the solution - either turn the hand face up for all to see and then award the pot accordingly because that's what the house rules require (the preferred action) or muck the hand without another word because the player has made their intention clear. You just don't second guess on whether the player has made a mistake or not because you end up putting yourself in idiotic situations like this one. Also, once other players have seen the cards they have an obligation to point out that a mistake is being made. That's a rule by the way, not just some vague matter of principle ([URL="http://www.homepokertourney.com/roberts-rules-of-poker.htm#THE_SHOWDOWN"]Roberts Rules Section 3 - General Poker Rules, The Showdown, Rule 3[/URL]) ...except what everyone chooses to ignore is that pretty much every version of the rules of poker you care to look at gives tournament directors and floor managers latitude to bend the technical rules in cases where it's in the interest of the game. Robert's Rules ([URL="http://www.homepokertourney.com/roberts-rules-of-poker.htm#DEAD_HANDS"]General Poker Rules, Dead Hands, Rule 2[/URL]) specifically allows for a hand to be retrieved from the muck if the cards are identifiable and it's in the interests of the game so the whole "mucked is mucked and that's the end of it" argument doesn't provide a complete solution. The question in this case is whether it's really in "the best interest of the game" to retrieve this hand. I'd say the floor got this one right since the player is the victim of nothing other than their own stupidity. They had all the relevant information available to them as well as the option of just turning their hand over and letting the dealer read the cards. 100% aviodable and 100% their fault - the dealer and other players just compounded the error after it was made. [/QUOTE]

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