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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3107205, member: 23910"] OK that one needs some more details to understand properly: - How many people were still in the hand? - Did YOU still have a live hand at this point? - Did you ask to see the cards before or after the final betting round was complete? The floor was correct, it's something you're [i]allowed[/i] to do but it's also a rule you're expected not to abuse by invoking it repeatedly. Detroitjunkie is right, you generally don't see the nitty gritty of live poker dealing procedures and rules enforcement on TV. And in some cases (more on this below), you'll actually see them bending or ignoring some rules specifically [i]because[/i] the hand is on television. The main reason you don't see that kind of stuff on TV is because televised poker is meant as [b]entertainment[/b]. Nitty gritty rules enforcement is boring. The casual viewing public, especially the WSOP audience on a mainstream channel like ESPN, want to see big all ins, sick calls and crazy bluffs. So unless it's something that goes majorly wrong or creates a lot of drama (that famous hand from several years back where the player called a shove and the dealer mucked her hand, for example) there's no reason for them to make a big deal out of who did or didn't show first or whatever. For what it's worth one thing that you WILL consistently see on TV (because it's something the players do, not the dealers) is string betting. It's against the rules in every poker room in the world as far as I'm aware, but you very rarely see it enforced. Maybe (this goes to my point above) that's because enforcing it 100% in a televised table would make for bad TV. But if all rules should be enforced uniformly 100% of the time, surely that's of great concern to you too? [/QUOTE]

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