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Sitting Out
We recently added a few rules in our home game to keep the action moving one of them is; if you're not at the table when action is on you, your hand is mucked.
As it is a new rule everyone has been taking the piss by auto-folding round to the absentee to force them to spend another blind.
Here's were the trouble starts. UTG min-raises and the table begins folding to the BB who is the absentee in this case, as it folds to the BB he still isn't seated and so I (the dealer) start to drag his cards over the betline towards the muck. Just before they reach the muck the BB returns see's that I am halfway through mucking his cards, runs to his seat reaches over to pull his cards back and proceeded to call.
UTG raises a point that the hand should already be over and BB can't play with an already mucked set of cards.
BB argues that seeing as his cards never touched the muck they're still in play.
They argue over it for a while until we put it to the table who all decide to let BB play the hand.
Was this the correct decision?
The reason this became a big deal in our group is that the BB flopped a straight and the UTG flopped top two-pair and proceeded to get knocked out of the tourney in 6th place.
As it is a new rule everyone has been taking the piss by auto-folding round to the absentee to force them to spend another blind.
Here's were the trouble starts. UTG min-raises and the table begins folding to the BB who is the absentee in this case, as it folds to the BB he still isn't seated and so I (the dealer) start to drag his cards over the betline towards the muck. Just before they reach the muck the BB returns see's that I am halfway through mucking his cards, runs to his seat reaches over to pull his cards back and proceeded to call.
UTG raises a point that the hand should already be over and BB can't play with an already mucked set of cards.
BB argues that seeing as his cards never touched the muck they're still in play.
They argue over it for a while until we put it to the table who all decide to let BB play the hand.
Was this the correct decision?
The reason this became a big deal in our group is that the BB flopped a straight and the UTG flopped top two-pair and proceeded to get knocked out of the tourney in 6th place.