Re: What would the ruling be?
One of two things (really the same thing) have to happen in this situation for the hand to be dead.
1) The player had to of declaired the hand dead by saying something like "I fold, take it".
or
2) The cards hit the muck, by either the action of the dealer or the player.
But... one other thing happened and it changes the way I would rule on it... the buddy. It is clear that the guy intended to fold and would not have tried to get his hand back if it were not for the guy asking if he had a diamond or not. That is a clear voilation of the "one player per hand rule". In light of that the hand is dead rather he had the winner or not.
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