Mirage 40-80 - How Would You Rule?

[tpir90036]

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but strick rules says an exposed hand is toast

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I have never heard of this being a rule anywhere not counting in tournaments where you can get penalized.

[BradL]

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I once saw this happen w/ two drunk guys. The one with the better hand raised and the rest of us all looked on silently with our mouths wide open as the guy with the worse hand called.

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I just burst out laughing in the middle of my gradschool core class.

-Brad

[Softrock]

My first gut reaction was of the technical variety. Dealer's picked up the cards, player A didn't call the raise, so he can't win. However, my thinking was then guided by the trying to protect the integrity of the game rule. Clearly there were no shenanigans going on here and even though the cards were in the muck, they'd been tabled face up and we all saw them. It certainly would have been bad for the game of poker and may well have influenced badly the two involved to rule on a technicality rather than what was obviously just.

The floor didn't give a reason but gave player A the option to call the raise or fold - he of course called the raise and was given the pot. All in all, a good common sense ruling from my perspective (can't say that "good common sense" is a description I'd use for many of the rulings I've seen).

[jayheaps]

technically, shouldn't he have been give the option to reraise as well.

[bernie]

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but strick rules says an exposed hand is toast, so the raiser showed his jacks is disqualified from the pot, everything afterwards is irrelevant.


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Who's strick? If you mean strict, then I think you're wrong.

This wasn't a tourney. I don't think I've ever played in a cardroom ringgame where exposing your hand makes it dead.

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[J.A.Sucker]

Since opening your hand isn't against the rules in any card room that I know of (except in tourneys), who cares. The guy can act accordingly.

[Jdanz]

i lose

[tolbiny]

"If I were the floor, I'd tell the guy with KK he can either call the raise (and take the pot obviously) or fold (let's see just how fishy this guy is)."

Hey- he should be able to reraise, no?

[Softrock]

Of course he should be able to reraise but the other player was not THAT clueless.