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[QUOTE="Stu_Ungar, post: 1411636, member: 39779"]
It is not in the interest of fairness or the game to overturn this rule.

As it stands, the rule is if your cards are mucked in any way you have no recourse if they werent protected.

Everyone knows where they stand here.

Now lets have the floor come in and allocate the person two cards from the mucked pile which he claims are his (we reall cant be 100% sure this isnt some elaborate form of cheating).

Lets say one of these two cards is the Ah.

He wins the pot and just before he scoops up the pot another player says Ah, I mucked the Ah.

Now this player may be mistaken, he may have mucked the Ad.

The winning player may be mistaken (but honestly so) maybe he had the Ad, it was red and he confused it with Ah

Maybe one of these players is out right liying to either cheat or cause trouble or get the hand declared dead and get his money back.

Who knows?  Its really impossible to tell because we have to take people at face value.  However its a situation that could not have occured if the rules had been followed and the mucked hand was declared dead.

The rule is there for a reason, and the reason is to prevent uncertainty.

By overturning it you face even bigger problems for which there would be no clear solution should these problems arise.

So with all that in mind, lets look at how elegent and simple this rule is and lets consider all of the problems it prevents before deciding that this rule only serves to to undermine the fairness of the game.
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