My favorite insane floor ruling.

[mosch]

Playing in an Act 2 at Foxwoods today, and I had a bizarre situation come up.

I was in the cutoff, and the first few players folded, then the small blind noted that one of the buttons cards had been exposed to him. When it's determined that he definitely saw the card, that card was declared dead from the button's hand.

At this point a few players mucked their hands (including the blinds) as they thought it was a misdeal, but the dealer quickly called the floor, who agreed with the dealer that because it was player error, the hand was live, but all the mucked hands were to remain mucked.

It folded to me, and to my left was the button, who had one card, and the blinds, both of whom had no hole cards. Safest blind steal ever.

Thank you, floor!

[whiskeytown]

had one recently that sorta perturbed me...

near the break in the first 1/3rd of a NL tourney, I get AK in LP - ready to raise when someone makes a mistake -

floor is called - hand is declared dead - I show cards to players next to me (sb and bb) and get ready to muck them

when the floor says...."No, his (the player who made an error)" hand is dead, not the whole dealt hand - everyone else still plays" -

9 times out of 10, when I hear "the hand is dead" - I'm assuming the WHOLE hand is dead and redealt - but sometimes it's just one person apparently - but we don't say "the player's hand is dead" - we say "the hand is dead" to encourage a bunch more mistakes -

It's my fault for flashing my cards, of course...and an all-in would have still taken it, but I was too irritated at the way the situation had been allowed to unfold and the fuzziness of what the floorperson said that I just decided "screw it" and mucked em anyways. -

an all-in was my only other hope and I would have to hope no one would call with 33 (which one guy had)

RB

[Equal]

lol okay that is officially the most hilarious thing I have ever read!!!! LMAO!!!

[Andy B]

I like to bash Foxwoods in general, and their floor staff in particular, as much as the next guy. It seems to me, however, that that was the proper ruling. What exactly was insane about it?

[scrub]

I agree.

The floor did the right thing.

The dealer sucked as much as most FW dealers do, though.

scrub

[Andy B]

I like bashing Foxwoods' dealers even more than I like bashing their floor staff.

[mosch]

Oh, it was the right ruling... it was just a bizarre situation, really.

Of course that entire Act was insane, to get a 10th player, we convinced an Act 1 player to put up $100, and four of us from the table, and one player's wife each put up $10 to cover his last $50.

For a bad floor ruling, I guess I'd have to reference the floor who without being asked ruled that I couldn't straddle in no-limit (helpfully explaining that I'd have position on the entire field, cheaply), then came back two hands later and said that I could.

[jedi]

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It folded to me, and to my left was the button, who had one card, and the blinds, both of whom had no hole cards. Safest blind steal ever.

Thank you, floor!

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While I agree that mucked hands stay mucked, why didn't the button receive another card?

[Rah]

I basically wonder the same thing when I get a hand like A4os. Why can't I show the small card to the SB and draw a new card until I have a nice hand like AK or aces?

[astroglide]

It folded to me, and to my left was the button, who had one card, and the blinds, both of whom had no hole cards.

this still cracks me up every time i glance over the thread