THOSE POKER RULES YOU NEVER KNEW

bigflop1

recently in a self deal tourny :-

i look down at king, just off final table when i need a double up... when

- guy opposite me folded but his cards went to far and touched mine... i was told my hand was mucked.. when i called tournament director i was told it is my responsibility to protect my hand.. even tho i had a card protector over my cards, i had to muck my hand and lose my small blind

OMahonyO

Thanks, but I still cant understand the particular situation you refer to.  Is it just a case of, if 3 ppl muck all out of turn , then the person who hasnt mucked must have been shooting some sort of angle to lead those players to believe he had mucked.  That cant be right.  Generally, I and prob others are waiting for the person to my right to act then I go next, so in theory, it could only be an oversight of one player, to make the whole table act out of turn.
I can understand a misdeal having to be continued once action had taken place.
Basically, why was your hand declared void.  Because 3 ppl mucked behind you?, why should that make your hand void. ?

FlutNush

Three quirky situations that stand out for me (including one of a 'manipulative' nature):

During a particularly tense – and large – pot in a cash game (at the Grosvenor in Piccadilly), the dealer dealt the flop all the way to the river... all five cards at once. There was an American tourist in the hand, and he just went ballistic. The floor manager came over, as did security, and there was just a ton of foul language and uncalled for abuse. After 20 minutes or so, it finally got resolved. I can't remember how because I was utterly langered. But what I do remember, is that after the tourist had ripped into the dealer, the hand finally continued, only for the dealer to once again deal the turn and river together. It kicked off royally all over again, and resulted in the American making an accompanied exit amidst a fug of cuss words.

When playing at Luton a while ago, the table seemed to be awash with eights. Every hand seemed to have them, including flopped quads, which sparked one regular off... he reckoned that he'd seen a hand dealt there once, with two eights on the flop. Not too spectacular in itself, until the players noticed they were both spades.

Finally, I did one of the Bluff Boot camps last year, and remember Ian Frazer talking about an interesting heads up battle: They'd got to the river and he was just convinced the other guy held the nuts... but he still didn't want to let his hand go. He didn't want to put any more money into the pot to find out the bad news either. So eventually, as he was sat at the end of the oval, he pushed his entire stack along the right side of the table, keeping it within the line. The other guy took this as an all-in and flipped his cards over, showing the nuts. Ian looked at the dealer, the dealer shrugged, and Mr. Frazer took his chips back.