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Originally Posted by dinesh
The rule is written as it is basically because of what you experienced - people will never agree which card was the extra one, even when they are all sure about it. Don't bother trying. Always randomly pick one to make the next burn card.
I agree with this so just know I am not trying to argue.
A couple of months ago, I brought in the pre-flop bets, burned a card, and as I was peeling the flop cards I announced that there were 4 players in the hand. So, having 4 on my mind I peel 4 cards off the deck for the flop. While the cards are still facedown on the felt, I recognize the brain fart and stop myself. I apologized to the table and pointed out what I had did. I slightly fan the 4 cards to clearly show there were 4 of them. I then pull the last card off of the top back onto the stub, still facedown where nothing could be seen.
I say "Now it is right." and look around at everyone at the table. Nobody seemed to care so I then spread the 3 cards as the flop.
Afterwards, I thought about it I figured I probably should have called the floor. I am pretty sure he would have had me do exactly what I did, but calling him still would have been proper.
Besides not calling the floor, does anyone have a problem with what I did?
Next situation a few weeks later, I am at a table where the deck is in terrible shape. The cards are constantly sticking together. It is rather humid out and that did not help. The shuffler is red lighting every 3 or 4 shuffles (gets it right when redone).
Anyway, I go to put out a flop, as I peel three cards off of the deck to the felt, I can tell the 2nd peel was two cards stuck together, but my hands were faster than my brain and did a 3rd peel anyway.
I immediately stop and explain to all of the players what happened. I confirm it by slightly fanning the 4 cards.
I called over the floor. He was slightly slow getting to the table so a bunch of the players just told me to drag the top card back onto the stub. I agreed with them but explained I wanted the floor telling me to put the card back on the stub and not just do it myself.
The floor came over a little bit later, not too late. I explained what happened, and a bunch of the players then just argued I needed to pick up the top card and put it back on the stub. The floor thought a second and told me to do that.
I did it and the game went on. The only thing I thought about later was that the flop cards were out of order. The 2nd and 3rd cards were switched. This doesn't matter from a poker perspective, but if there was any side bets based on the flop it could have mattered (some flop side games pay double if a card is in the middle position). Since was a low limit game there was no side bets so no one cared.
I think the floor ruling was easily within the spirit of the rules. The 3 cards that were supposed to be on the flop were and the turn burn card was also correct so I actually like the ruling. I feel like randomly picking one to be the burn would have been wrong in this situation.