showing cards too soon

[Pop1yes]

Was at a tourney where the dealer, also a player, put the community flop cards on the board before all players had acted. What should the ruling be ??

[frob23]

Was at a tourney where the dealer, also a player, put the community flop cards on the board before all players had acted. What should the ruling be ??

Can you provide a little more detail about what happened? How many people had acted, how many were left to act, and what action had happened? Also, did someone act after the mis-flop or did everyone immediately draw attention to it?

95% of the time, I would rule that the 3 cards from the flop are mixed back in the stub (leave the burn card off to the side) and the stub is reshuffled and recut. Then the burn card is placed back on top of the newly shuffled stub and the action is allowed to proceed from where it is.

There is also a case for declaring a misdeal and redealing the whole hand (if there hasn't been much action) because knowing the three cards does effect some of the play. Still... I believe the proper way would be to shuffle the stub. That is the one that has the least effect on the outcome of the hand. If someone has already opened for a raise... I would always go with the reshuffle.

[frob23]

[quote]The rules given for rectifying a hold'em situation where the dealer has dealt the flop or another boardcard before all the betting action on a round are inferior, because the dealer is told to not burn a card on a redeal. Since the

[Chips]

Kudos on the post! Thanks!

[Rudster]

Ok we're looking into giving Eric his own poker section...we'll call it "POKER DOS AND DON"TS"

[frob23]

Ok we're looking into giving Eric his own poker section...we'll call it "POKER DOS AND DON"TS"

;D

lol, I am just a person who enjoys the fine points (and I play a lot of live poker so these odds things do happen) and have probably looked up the weird things before.

This one was something I had experienced originally at a live tournament where the players dealt. The player who was dealing mistakenly thought everyone folded after the all-in and first call and didn't realize one player was still thinking and hadn't acted. It was basically, the same as the original post.

That tournament happens to be run by a bunch of dealers on their off time. And my original response was how they handled it. I then went and found the official ruling to make sure I wasn't spreading misinformation (as these dealers have made mistakes before).