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Originally Posted by Gravity Well
What would happen to the pot if the guy "decided to forfeit" his claim to the pot?
Can't say for sure, as it is such a rare event that it would just depend on what the floor decided to do. I see three possible options under different rules in RROP. One is that the pot is forfeited and is then carried over into the next hand. RROP states this is the remedy if a player knows there is a fouled deck (like he is playing a hand with two Ah) and tries to freeroll to win the hand. But if his hand is exposed, he can't claim the entire hand is invalid and get all his money back. Instead he forfeits his money and it goes to the next pot.
Then RROP says that when money is forfeited per that rule, OR OTHER REASONS, (my emphasis) only the players dealt into the hand can play in the following hand. So I would suggest that this would fall into one of a possible "other reason" for a forfeiture and the money is rolled over.
But there is another place in RROP where a pot can be awarded to a person who has mucked his hand. If a player intentionally misdeclares his hand, causing the other player to muck, the player misdeclaring the hand can be made to forfeit the pot and it can be given to the other player, even though he no longer has cards, and the other player does. So that is a situation where the "last person with a live hand" doesn't get the pot based on him not following the rules, and the pot is awarded to the second to last person with a live hand, even though that hand was never tabled. So there is a possible precedent there.
And I guess a third option could be to refund the pot back to the other players, and just forfeit the amount the guy who wouldn't show put in, and carry that over to the next pot.
Since I don't know if this has ever actually happened where a guy absolutely refused to show, I can't say how it would go. I guess it's just sort of a thought exercise based on trying to extrapolate from other rules in RROP