Home Game two-deck aggro...ruling from the floor please.

PocketJokers72 · #1 03-25-2005, 04:19 PM

Home Game.
2 decks used to keep the game going (one shuffling, one dealing)

Tournament style. On the bubble.
Dealers are players that have already been knocked out.

Two players with pretty good hands bet back and forth, end up All-in PF.

Dealer #1 runs the flop, turn, river. Player #1 wins.

As the dealer pulls in the cards and pushes the pot, he notices that he has the "Red" cards, and Dealer #2 has the correct "Blue" cards, so the F/T/R was dealt from the wrong deck.

Dealer #2 runs the flop, turn, river from the correct deck and Player #2 wins instead.

Was this the correct way to fix the error? I think so.

TomHimself · #2 03-25-2005, 04:22 PM

Why because you were player 2? As I think this was a big mix up, you either reshuffle and redeal or let player have it. How did the players not realize that their hands were one color and the flop was a different color

PocketJokers72 · #3 03-25-2005, 04:30 PM

I was not in the hand. I had folded my hand preflop and was spectating.

There was a lot of action preflop, bet raise re-raise re-re-reraise. etc etc.

There was also everyone else railbirding and chatting and basically distracting the dealers. Not excusing it, but it did happen. I think this was correct since you could possibly end up with 5 of a kind or a pair suited by dealing the hole cards off of one deck and the F/T/R off of another. With being HU and all-in preflop, there was no action to come except to flip up 5 cards and decide who won.

TomHimself · #4 03-25-2005, 04:38 PM

True, but I think you guys did the right think, but I might just call somewhat of a misdeal and redeal the whole hand over

Art Vandelay · #5 03-25-2005, 04:41 PM

Had the blue deck already begun to be reshuffled for the next round or was it 'ready for the flop' so to speak? If it's the latter, you can just deal the F/T/R and push the pot to Player 2, the outcome of the hand would not have changed if the deck has not been shuffled.

Weird scenario in any case.

The Goober · #6 03-25-2005, 07:54 PM

Had this happen the last hand of a home tourney. Its heads-up with me and the other guy. We go all-in pre-flop (I have him slightly covered), he turns out 22 and I turn over AK. I was dealing at this point, but the other guy mistakenly picks up his deck and starts to deal the flop (I noticed the error, but at this point there were a bunch of spectators making a lot of noise and it was all happening rather quickly). He deals out a raggedy flop with a 2 on it and everyone starts making noise... then the turn is another 2 and everyone gets louder... then the river is a another 2... the noise level goes up even more and then gets real quiet as everyone mentally processes his 5 of a kind.

Afterwards, of course, I deal out the real board from the correct deck (this is obviously the only right thing to do, since it wasn't fouled in any way)... no help for either of us and I bust out shortly afterwards [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

warewulf · #7 03-25-2005, 08:03 PM

You totally did the right thing. If it wasn't the right deck, he can't win the hand.

What would a casino do in this situaiton? Answer: IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I've had this happen too, but I always caught it on the flop. It's an emotional roller coaster, but hey, what can you do.

citizenkn · #8 03-25-2005, 10:07 PM

had this exact same thing happen to me in a home tourney. I had QQ and was all in against KK. Flop was Q-Q-5, and there was a load roar until someone realized that the flop had been dealt from the wrong deck. I was not happy, until we dealt the flop from the correct deck and I still hit a Q on the flop. Ahhh...good times.....

Oh but my point....I think that was the right play....

Lottery Larry · #9 03-25-2005, 10:55 PM

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As the dealer pulls in the cards and pushes the pot, he notices that he has the "Red" cards, and Dealer #2 has the correct "Blue" cards, so the F/T/R was dealt from the wrong deck.

Dealer #2 runs the flop, turn, river from the correct deck and Player #2 wins instead.

Was this the correct way to fix the error? I think so.

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As long as the correct deck wasn't changed in composition (shuffled, etc) then you did this perfectly.

I had a friend run into this- his Aces stood up to the four-flush that flopped and he survived all in. Then we noticed the turn and river were the wrong deck. Of course the flush came on the river to knock him out (at least it was a rebuy tourney). Oops!