Re: \"I Play the Board,\" I lose the pot, I miss a bet.
I understood Angus to be saying that, in order to be consistent with 3.1, RROP 5.8 actually means that playing the board still involves showing both cards face up, making the announcement, then mucking them. However, in that case I don't understand why playing the board would be any different from any other hand where the cards speak, so perhaps you're correct that RROP intended 5.8 as an exception to 3.1.
At any rate, I look forward to Bob Ciaffone's response.
There's certainly no obligation to announce you're playing the board, right? The opponent could have turned his cards face up in view of the table and if he really were playing the board (and the winning hand was the board) then he'd get his share of the pot without saying a word, right?
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