Exposed Hand

[beerbandit]

I was playing in a live 10-20 hold em game at the local casino sitting in seat two and this situation came up. I didn't feel it was a big deal at the time, because the pot was fairly small. But afterward other players mentioned that it was unfair.

Ok-I'm in the BB with JQoff and a Mid calls, and the button calls. The flop comes K J 10 rainbow so I bet. The mid folds and the button calls. Turn comes a 4 so I bet and he calls again. The last card pairs the 4 and I check and so does the button. I roll my hand announcing jacks up. He makes the motion of mucking his hand and then holds it up and the player in the 9 can see his hand. I was watching him and don't think he did that on purpose. Then he motions to muck his hand again and the 9 seat player says "wait thats a split pot". He held J6off so we ended up splitting the pot. It didn't seem to matter at the time but, when I think of it now I don't feel what happened was correct and the other player even mentioned that to me. Was I wrong or since he hadn't mucked was it live?

Thank You

[Tyler Durden]

His hand was live but it's one player to a hand. That guy shouldn't have said anything.

[onegymrat]

Button should lose automatically for playing J-6o.

[LetsRock]

I'm not sure if the one player to hand rule applies here, but the show one show all sure does. Once he shows his hand to one player, he has to table it at which point a good dealer would declare the chop.

Moral of the story: be sure you know you're beat before mucking - let the dealer read the hands.

(And yes he should be DQ for playing that crap from the button!)