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Old 11-21-2005, 03:26 PM
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Default Re: Strange NL dealer error with stacks- what should floor do here?

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I've never seen this type of mistake before, and I'm curious what the proper floor ruling would be. This took place at Turning Stone Casino.

I am in a heads-up pot in a NL Hold'em game, and my opponent is first to act. The river card comes out, and my opponent thinks and announces "all-in" (which is heard by everyone on our side of the table). He then grabs a randomly-sized stack of his own chips and pushes them in the middle of the table.

I deliberate for some time, and announce "call". The cards are revealed, and I have the winning hand.

I start stacking my chips in even piles to determine the amount in my stack... when the dealer abruptly reaches across me to my opponent's chips, grabs the stack that he had put in the middle of the table to represent his all-in bet, and pushes me the pot before either of us have time to react. Of course, we have a problem -- neither of us remember our exact chip counts from the start of the hand, and the dealer has now combined all of the chips. Our stacks were close enough that we didn't even know who covered whom.

Fortunately, the opponent was a close friend of mine, and we knew that our stacks were relatively similar... and he only had a few chips left in his stack after the dealer mistake, so we just agreed to play on.

Unfortunately, the dealer was a dick about it, and was very unapologetic.

If we had called over the floor, what would they have done?

How adamant would we need to be before they reviewed the tape? It doesn't seem like there is a much better solution.

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Are you saying that your stack got mixed in with the chips in the pot, or just your opponents chips got mixed in with the pot. If just your opponent's then the pot size can be calculated by going back over the action and any extra chips obviously werere your opponents stack.
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