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Originally Posted by br3nt00
the river had not been re-dealt yet
so i bolded what i think your response is, and im curious why because i thought differently. in my view the action was on player 3 but he had already folded, i viewed that action as binding.
I have made a call to let it stay at times in the past and those times were only because I was actually at the table and it was obvious to me the last player to act was in the middle of actually folding as the card came out. Beyond that I will always shuffle it back in and here's my reasoning why:
Imagine you are the last person to act and you were thinking about calling when the dealer brought the river early. Now, that river didn't help you, but as someone brings up the fact you were skipped, you see/hear one of the other players in the hand is obviously fighting to keep the card there and this is a friend of yours. You automatically go into "well I was going to fold anyway" mode because you assume you are helping your friend. This may not ever be the case, but to make sure this never happens, I will always rule to shuffle it back in.
Now imagine that exact situation happens and the floor decides to shuffle it in anyway and now you are asking if you can stay in the hand and call since a new river is coming now. Do you see the issue I have with it? We just take those possibilities out of play by always reshuffling.