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Originally Posted by EvilGreebo
No, I meant you. You agreed with psujohn that "that significant action has occurred and you didn't protect your hand and so it's dead."
How is it possible his hand is ruled dead? On what grounds?
How is it about protecting his hand? He has his hand.
First of all, you're mischaracterizing what he said somewhat. He said it was possible to rule it dead, but most likely it would be backed up.
Second of all, protecting your physical cards is only part of your responsibility. You also have to protect your action. While I don't agree with killing the hand in general, I could construct an example where a player purposefully hid his hand to see what all his opponents would do, and only at the last possible moment (or even later) spoke up to claim action was on him, and in such a case I might be tempted to kill the hand instead. It would be a stretch though.