B&M costly newbie error - DON'T DO WHAT I DID!!!

I'm an internet player. Been playing 8 months casually and a fairly ept* player IIDSSMS**. So anyway, I'm in Melbourne for the weekend and decide to take myself to Crown Casino - venue of the Aussie Millions early next year. I manage to figure out how to put myself on the list for a 4/8 hold'em game and finally I sit down and start playing. I was very nervous but after a few hands I was well into it. What a great table! There were 4 or more seeing every flop - a bunch of loose passives. Perfect.

Time for a new paragraph. Not really getting any great hole cards but remaining patient and of the few hands I do play I catch a couple of flops and win a few hands. A new dealer and cards go flying. Literally. She's not really a very good dealer. A card goes face up and people start chucking in their cards. Now I'm figuring that it's a misdeal and I look at my cards anyway and I see pocket aces. Great - a misdeal now! I chuck my cards in face up...

Error.

A SINGLE FACE UP CARD DOES NOT CONSTITUE A MISDEAL. The players chucking their cards in were folding!

I was mortified, as you can imagine. There was much ribbing from other players which I took with good humour and repeated banging of my head against the table. The winner of the hand showed a pair of 4's. A lesson learned, and now, a lesson shared.




* ept adj. opposite of inept

** IIDSSMS if this isn't internet abreviation already it should be if I do say so myself

[benkahuna]

In US pokerrooms, one face up card gets shuffled back into the deck and anything slightly odd beyond that turns into a misdeal.

[SheridanCat]

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In US pokerrooms, one face up card gets shuffled back into the deck and anything slightly odd beyond that turns into a misdeal.

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The normal procedure is for the exposed card to be used as the first burn card.

To the OP, see Robert's Rules of Poker for the ins-and-outs of what constitutes a misdeal.

Regards,

T

[benkahuna]

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In US pokerrooms, one face up card gets shuffled back into the deck and anything slightly odd beyond that turns into a misdeal.

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The normal procedure is for the exposed card to be used as the first burn card.

To the OP, see Robert's Rules of Poker for the ins-and-outs of what constitutes a misdeal.

Regards,

T

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You are totally right. Whoops. The procedue I described is what they do when someone hasn't acted yet, but the dealer didn't notice and put down another card (usually the turn card or river card).

At Crown the face up card remains face up. A 2nd face up card and it's a misdeal then.

[Yads]

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I'm an internet player. Been playing 8 months casually and a fairly ept* player IIDSSMS**.

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I beleive you mean apt which is the opposite of inept.

[Army Eye]

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I'm an internet player. Been playing 8 months casually and a fairly ept* player IIDSSMS**.

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I beleive you mean apt which is the opposite of inept.

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I believe you mean adept.

[AngusThermopyle]

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I'm an internet player. Been playing 8 months casually and a fairly ept* player IIDSSMS**.

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I beleive you mean apt which is the opposite of inept.

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I believe you mean adept.

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inept
adj.

1. Not apt or fitting; inappropriate.
2.<ul type="square">[*] 1. Displaying a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; foolish: an inept remark. [*] 2. Bungling or clumsy; incompetent: inept handling of the account.[/list][Latin ineptus : in-, not; see in-1 + aptus, suitable; see apt.]

But in the context used, adept would be the opposite.

It's like any other sport... you don't stop running/shooting/carrying the ball etc. until the whistle is blown and the Ref is stopping the action.

I just hold onto my cards until the dealer looks at me and asks for them back.

[d10]

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I just hold onto my cards until the dealer looks at me and asks for them back.

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I bet you're a favorite at your local B&amp;M.