This was not me but it was hilarious.

EP raises, a few coldcallers, and BTN calls. A flop is dealt. There is some action. The action is on BTN.

BTN: "Where's my second card?"

People around him kind of back away to give him room to look. The rail is lifted to see if it slid underneath. The floor is searched. It's missing. Nobody around him has an extra card.

Finally, the dealer asks, "What card was it?" (presumably to check the stub).

BTN: "I don't know."

Blank stares all around.

BTN: "I never looked at it. I don't know if I even got one."

Hilarity ensued. The dealer counts down the deck and sure enough there's an extra card. The floor is called over, and when the floor stopped laughing, he obviously has to rule the hand dead.

Winner of the pot was gracious enough to throw BTN back his preflop call. Nobody objected.

I've long lost the link to it, but someone posted a video of an old guy talking about his biggest beat in decades of playing live poker on youtube.

The gist of it was he was playing stud hi-lo, and the best possible hand in that game is a straight flush wheel, which is the nut low and the almost-nut high. It basically always scoops.

He'd never got one in all the years he played, and he was playing in a game in Florida where he made one on sixth street. Even better, it was concealed (2 of the straight flush cards were down) and his opponents had made hands and were betting. So he was just calling everything, and the pot got up over $10,000.

The river was dealt and he didn't even look at it, because he already had made his hand. More betting ensued and when he got to showdown he proudly opened his hole cards and threw them down on the table...

at which point, the two cards stuck together that he was dealt on 7th street unstuck and came apart. And his 8 card hand was killed....

just the other day, I was playing in one of the dailies at the WSOP and we're in the first level...I'm HU in a pot that I had raised pre, and there's $350t in the pot, so I go to C-bet $250t into the pot, but I pick up the wrong chips and bet $10,050t.

The other guy folded, thank god.

Sometimes red cards are confusing.
Playing short-handed 20/40 I had Q9 and bet three streets on a J9xxJ board.
After the river he threw some red objects in front of him, so I threw my cards forward a short distance face down.

A couple seconds later, nothing had happened, so I looked around and the player and dealer were giving me a WTF look. Apparently he threw red chips in there for a call, when I thought he had thrown in his cards for a fold.

Thankfully the dealer hadn't yet picked up my cards and they were nowhere near the muck, so I was able to grab them and turn them over, and of course my hand was good.

That was on Friday, but the weekend before I had a similar situation on the flop.
In a HU BvB spot, I c/r the flop because I was certain I saw villain put out a bet.
When the dealer asked "what's happening here?" the other player responded "I checked behind and he's dark-shotting the turn."
I agreed because I don't want the floor coming over for something so stupid and villain folded turn.

MORAL OF THESE STORIES: Never trust your peripheral vision.

Did something similar a couple of years ago. 5-6 way raised pot and it gets to me and I came along with Q9 suited. Q83 flop with some type of flush draw.

I check, bet , a couple calls, then a raise in front of me. I for some reason think I have Q8 for top 2, and without checking my cards I jam it in with about 150bb stack. A short stack player calls it off with KQ and then the PF raiser who is last to act and has me covered tanks then folds AA face up. By now I've checked my cards and realized my huge mistake and told the other all-in player I misread my hand and that he's way ahead. I proceed to bink a 9 OTT and then the board pairs 3s OTR. The KQ player just laughed about it, but the player who folded AA and would have won went on instant life tilt and decided he wanted to take it out on me since had I not misread my hand and jammed he wouldn't have folded AA there. LOL. I just told him "yep, I'm an idiot" and proceeded to put my ear buds in so I didn't have to hear him complain about it for the next half hour.

lol wow thats insanely unlucky, id be so pissed.

One time at the casino I had 1 too many, hell, it was actually like 15 too many jack and cokes. The details are very fuzzy as it was like 10 years ago, but I was sitting at a 1/2 or 1/3 table and about to leave. Figured I'd give it one more orbit and rack up and go. I was just hitting cards like crazy and it was obvious now that everyone was there due to my fishy play.

So next hand after I convinced my drunk ass to leave I get dealt two Aces, maybe the second or third time this session (2 hours or so), but who knows, I AM HAMMERED!!! Don't know position or stack size, but what I do know is one person has me covered and I've been on catching all night. I raise it up and it ends up being me and the guy who has me covered.

A on the flop, along with a K and some other blurry card. Long story short we end up getting it in post flop. I remember him happily declaring, "I have a set of kings" as he turns em over. My happy drunk ass declares a set of aces and flip over.....



Needless to say I lost, got laughed at immensely and didn't make it a full orbit. Even tho everyone was insisting I stay longer. Was not my proudest moment.

Should be at least compensated what he pot into the pot. Should NEVER have to pay for a dealer's mistake.

That is a potential problem in any stud game. If the player gets 2 cards on the last deal, even if he notices it immediately, I don't know how he can prove he didn't get the extra one on the first deal, or which cards he did get on the first deal so should be able to keep.

This is not how poker works.

It's basic decency and good customer service. Oh yeah I'm gonna go to a card room, the dealer is gonna make a mistake and kill my hand and I'm gonna lose $500 through no fault of my own. That's reasonable right? **** no. I would DEMAND compensation cause it's BULL****. The entire hand should be dead IMO. The tape should be rolled and all players given back their bets.

You can demand all you want, none of that is going to happen. You have to learn to protect yourself as best as you can.

Also, please do not subvert the language filter.

WSOP cash games last night, I folded a set of sevens ott when I was facing a raise all in, then another re-raise all in and then another call with chips left behind. $4000+ pot.

River? A seven

But I could just be results oriented

OK if the dealer makes a mistake and sticks two cards together how am I supposed to protect myself from that?

In holdem or omaha, you can check your cards as soon as you get them.

For your last downcard in stud, there's not much you can do...

I have very little Stud experience, but would a player have an argument if it was clear that they never "took in" 7th street. Meaning he kept the card separate from his other down cards?

This is where too many players get it wrong. If you receive an improper card, or an improper amount of cards, it's your responsibility to point out the error as soon as possible. Obviously a dealer error has occurred, but to say the player is at "no fault" is incorrect.

If a player was able to receive all bets back, then what's to stop me from taking an aggressive line if this happens to me? I received three cards in holdem? Guess I'll just raise every street. If a win the pot, sweet. If I don't, I'll tell the floor I have three cards and get my money back! Do you see why that rule would cause more problems?

You could try to do this, but it is unlikely that dealer or anyone else would be watching you closely enough to be able to verify.

Just consider the example in the video - even if he had noticed immediately that he got two downcards on the last deal and spoken up right away, he would have a very tough time proving it, and his opponents would have a huge incentive to disallow him keeping the cards he preferred to keep.

I can definitely see why it'd be a tough sell. Not only would you have to keep the down cards separate but you'd also need the dealer to be 100% of that. Makes sense

That doesn't make any sense. If the player has no recourse in that situation, what's to stop a hostile dealer from costing a particular player a ****load of money "by accident". How do you impose penalties in that case without overly punishing genuine accidents?

Personal pedantic pet peeve. Drop the $'s. I know you put the t's behind. Better and easier just dont put the $'s in the first place. Tournament chips have no cash value.

Literally lol'd for about 10 minutes about this as it's something I can imagine myself doing. Getting some funny looks at the poker table right now.

Settle down, Francis

I prefaced that it was pedantic.