5/5 PLO - 5-way action and 2 of distracted dealer's cards end up in remainder of deck
5 ways to flop: 2 checks, I bet pot ($100), 1 call. Player in between caller and dealer spills his drink and dealer turns to help out. Somehow, 2 of his 4 cards end up in the remainder of the deck. We worked everything out with only 1 player complaining quite a bit, but first, what is the BEST way to resolve this while allowing action to continue?
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The best way, imo, is not to allow action to continue. 5/5 self dealt PLO is a big enough game for some chance of this being a set up of some kind.
5 ways to flop: 2 checks, I bet pot ($100), 1 call. Player in between caller and dealer spills his drink and dealer turns to help out. Somehow, 2 of his 4 cards end up in the remainder of the deck. We worked everything out with only 1 player complaining quite a bit, but first, what is the BEST way to resolve this while allowing action to continue?
I'm having difficulty imagining how this happened...the dealer turns to help w/ cleanup and (somehow) slides 2 of the 4 cards into the stub?
There's not a specific rule that covers this, except...Protect Your Hand.
In a home game, though, you resolve it however the host prefers. Personally, I would lean towards letting the hand continue but dealer only has the 2 remaining cards. Under no circumstances are we digging through the stub even if he swears he knows which 2 cards. Alternatively, dealers hand is dead because he doesn't have the required number of cards, significant action has occurred, and he didn't protect his hand.
If it's my home game, and there aren't rules already to cover it:
Dealer's hand is dead and the dealer should remove their cards from the stub to avoid them being dealt.
If the 2 cards were mucked and couldn't be dealt, I'd give the dealer the option to continue with just the 2 cards.
