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Originally Posted by Ray Zee
holding your cards also keeps the dealer from thinking you have given up. dealers are not always players and let their mind wander and make mistakes.
also you dont yell for floor, you immediately stop the dealer from moving the pot away from you. you call the floor at decision time.
once the pot is gone then you have to rely on the dealer to explain who gets the pot then your turn and the floor doesnt want to take a pot from an unwilling person.
if i did that every time i would have 0 times when a situation like this caught a cheater and got me my money... and about 100 times where the floor would come over and say "4,5,6,8,9 is not a straight sir" or "he has a flush sir" or "you don't have an ace sir".
the more common scenario is the pot is pushed away from me and instead of telling the dealer to stop i look at the cards and think "oh... i didn't win"
if i was OP, it would have played out the exact same.. and i don't think i would have thought i wasn't protecting my hand