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Originally Posted by sw_emigre
This goes back to what kind of home game this game actually is. In my beer and bull**** game, guys deals himself 3 cards, we'd tease him for weeks. Lol at declaring a misdeal.
There's no misdeal, it's a dead hand.
You guys have to understand which rules are fundamental to the game even in a social game, and which aren't. There are lots of rules that can be bent.
Could we get to the river and say "hey I have a straight and he has a flush, but I'm kind of drunk and I forgot what beats what", can we give the pot to the straight because he thought he had the nuts? No.
Could we get to the river and one guy has A
A
in his hand and we say "he wins the pot with 2 aces, but let's figure out this deck for the next hand?" No.
If the dealer mucks a player's hand by mistake in a home game and we can retrieve the cards, should we? Yes.
If a guy "calls" thinking the bet was $10 but it got raised to $50 and he didn't hear it, do we let him fold instead? Yes.
You need a legal poker hand to win a pot, period. Everyone in the game should know what the fundamental, unbreakable rules in the game are and then there would be absolutely no bad feelings about this, just like everyone should know a flush beats a straight. There's never any argument or hard feelings over that, is there? The hand is dead, period.