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Message: [QUOTE="jsaw, post: 2275270, member: 7953"] The ruling should be based on the rules set forth before the game started. However in many home games this doesn't happen. PI is allin - and thus no longer plays an active roll in the outcome between P2,P3, and P4. While it is P1's responsibility to know what is happening at the table his subsequent actions -- showing his cards -- did not affect the outcome of the hand. In fact they provided the other players with information that is they would not bet unless their hand beat PI's. P4's argument that he may have bet to create a side pot (since it appears his hand was not as good as P1's thus having no chance of winning the main pot) is predicated on an assumption that P2 and P3 would have called. P1's action did not cause P4 to lose any chips and his action appears to have been an honest mistake. P1 should have taken down the pot and P4 should switch to playing chess - where background noise won't effect the game. [/QUOTE]