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Originally Posted by Alpha Fish
but hands get incorrectly mucked about once in never
I'm not an expert on this subject by any means but I probably played 150,000 hands of live poker by now and not only I've never seen a dealer muck a hand with a chip on top of it, I haven't even heard of anything like that
A hand with a chip on it has nothing to do with it. I've seen that happen, I've seen hands without a chip mucked, I've read this thread.
****, I've seen upcards in stud get mucked. I spend about 1 minute per session making my sure my cards don't get mucked with methods beyond "put a chip on it" and my cards have never gotten mucked, and I have spent hours of my life watching arguments over cards that get mucked.
It's very simple, this hand shouldn't have been mucked, this guy should have won the pot, but he didn't, and he could have avoided this entire situation very simply. That's all people are saying.
Your cards are the ticket to getting the money. Whatever the rules are, however ridiculous the situation is, it's a lot easier to get the pot if your cards are out of the muck, and it's a lot harder for your opponent to get the pot if their cards are in the muck, so spend the tiny amount of effort to keep your cards out of the muck and don't end up like this OP. It isn't that hard to prevent yourself from getting a bad floor ruling in a situation like this, so just do that.