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Originally Posted by 18000rpm
This is a crappy situation.
But what if the op had the nuts and would have won the rest of his stack? Ruling the hand dead actually saves the opponent his stack...
Good point.
This is why too you can't let the hero decide what to do. You can't have a biased judge make an unbiased decision. Doing that also let's villain possibly know the strength of hero's hand. Hero says he wants chips in play assumes a strong hand. He says they don't play might indicate weakness. Yeah, he might use reverse "tells" so to speak. If you want to get into meta.
And since when does a player get to decide anything? New to me if this happens. (Not saying you said they should - directing this at others who said so.)
If we want an unbiased decision 2 options:
Go to the cameras. If chips are not on table start of hand, they stay off during and vice versa.
Or literally flip a coin.
Declaring the hand dead, especially if we are not on the river yet (thus hero is guaranteed a win) seems fair and effective punishment.