[Rick Nebiolo]

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In LA a winning hand that has gone to a showdown has to be exposed, however there is the added twist that player A mucked his cards first. Seems to me if player A wanted to see his cards then all he had to do was turn his over first.

I'd bet almost any amount of money that if you asked 10 different floors in LA for a ruling you'd get different answers and reasons why they ruled that way from each of them. This all goes back to earlier posts about why there aren't standardized rules of poker that casino's follow, and more important, why do some casino's have rules but allow their floors to interpret them differently?

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I've actually spoken (cordially) to two different floors in two different clubs (one is more of a pure shift manager, one is a lead floor in a top section and part-time shift manager) about this and a bunch of matters, especially those that affect the new no limit games. They did in fact have different opinions on the question posted in the lead post, but they both stated them eloquently.

The problem in LA and everywhere else is the rulebooks aren't as well written and clear as they could be. They will never be perfect, but IMO they could use a lot of work and people in one club or region need to build on the better work done by others. To make matters worse, they are often interpreted by inexperienced floor staffs.

I will probably be involved in the industry again, and one thing I hope to do is work on writing a better, shorter, and more easily understandable set of rules. If I get the chance of course I'll look to 2+2 for help.

~ Rick