Re: Player mucks cards then pulls them out to hit boat
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It was heads up, smaller stack has QQ, other guy has A8, flop is 88J. QQ goes all in and is quickly called by A8. QQ says "do you have an 8", the other guy quickly says yes and QQ throws his cards in the muck. Dealer finishes the hand and when Q comes on turn small stack quickly retrieves his cards. Another Q comes on river. QQ starts raking the pot and other guy says nothing. WTF?
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This same situation basically was posted about several months ago and there was a huge debate on it. I and yes, I do mean I, actually wrote Bob Ciaffone on this. His reply was basically, if the player's cards were mucked before being shown or tabled, they are dead and the dealer should have stopped the deal, end of story.
If the cards were tabled and shown, then the hand is live and the that player can claim the pot, even if he takes his exposed live hand and tosses them in the muck in disgust.
Please, let's not get into this again, it was painful enough the first time.
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