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Originally Posted by chillrob
No one at the table, or the dealer, understood that whether you replace card or not doesn't change the flop??
it's the whole precedent thing. it's how rulings go for some reason. the purpose of the ruling is that so no matter what n*x+1 cards are dealt either way. there's 9 people * 2 cards each = 18 cards +1(burn) = 19 before the flop. since one got exposed, they just exchange that one of the 18 cards for the burn card and the exposed card becomes the burn. that process is then the same if 2 cards are exposed, which would change the flop. so it's a precedent thing overall.
i don't think it's that nobody knew that the flop wouldn't change, it was about how to correctly apply the rules at that time b/c the player wasn't there. but ofc, the dealer should have mucked the cards, then swapped the top for the burn, mucked that, and dealt the flop as is.