Cash Game Hand exposed. Ruling? (1 Viewer)

[1A25R]

Tonight, the following happened

Board
First to act open to 15
I tanked, and I folded
The guy snap showed his A5
While at my left, the last player still to act.

He asked if vilain hand was dead. Dealer say no, there is a bet and you are heads ups.
Vilain 2 asked to have the floor called over.
Floor said because you are heads up vilain 1 hand is not dead.
Vilain 2 asked to see the rule, the floor handed it over.
So vilain 2 argued that we were not heads up because there was 3 players at the beginning of the action.

What's your opinion based on that writen rule?
They were heads up as from the moment I folded?

 

[DeeVee8]

imo, you folded. How many players were left? Sounds pretty heads up to me. Dude is trolling to try and win the pot because he can't beat the A5.

 

[BGinGA]

Floor is correct -- action is on the player following you (facing a 15 bet), with full knowledge of what his opponent has (A5 for a straight).

And shoving is usually a much more effective way to win the pot than trying to convince the floor that opponent's hand should be ruled dead, although it probably won't work in this case. But I'd be shoving with A5 and 65.

 

[Coyote]

Exposing one's hand is at one's own risk; it doesn't kill the hand.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Yup. He now knows what he's against and has action. He gives it up, unless he wants to convince someone with the second nuts that he has the first...

 

[JustinInMN]

As @Coyote said, exposure doesn't kill the hand. Villian has all options available.

If anything, you are the guy that got screwed in this hand because you didn't have all the information the villian behind you had when it was your turn to act. (Though really, obviously you continue with a straight yourself.)

Guy that exposed his hand mostly hurt himself, floor got this one right.

 

[Gobbs]

I’m not sure what heads up has to do with it. Hand is not dead.

 

[redwine]

Lol at v2 trying to angle his way into a pot

 

[Gobbs]

Lol at v2 trying to angle his way into a pot

Probably, but it still never fails to amaze me how many people don’t know the rules and believes pre-maturely exposing cards automatically kills them.

 

[DoubleEagle]

Exposed hand in tourney is never dead. Normally gets a penalty.

 

[1A25R]

To me was so pretty obvious that I told to v2 that "if you are not head up, I can take my hand back? Ha, and wait, I think that there is also a rule that say the dealer can't kill a winning hand, should we call the floor over and ask for the book of rules again?"
-no it's fine.

Everyone except V2 was laughing, he tilted and I walked away with his stack a few orbits later.
I value betted my 3 of a kind, and he called saying "you've missed your flush, ah?"
-"yes, good read sir, I have trips"

 

[WedgeRock]

Villain 2 gets kicked it the nuts by the rest of the table for holding up the action so long...

 

[surfik]

Yeah, hand is not dead but the description of what happened is regrettable....