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Two players to a hand rule. Regular's hand is ruled dead.

However, the pot is restored to the size it was before the infraction took place and the $500 pot is awarded to the guy with 88. The regular's $2000 raise is given back to him.

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I wasnt sure at first, but this makes sense.

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So you're saying if anybody else ever says anything about my cards, I lose 'em? If I'm doing nothing wrong, but a railbird behind me sees my cards and "helps" me with a comment, they're dead? If it's heads-up between me and a guy at the far end of the table and I've ceased carefully protecting my cards, while still not blatantly sharing them, if a neighboring player sees 'em and says something foolish, my hand is dead?

Gotta be careful about punishing folks who didn't do anything wrong.

On the other hand, these two clowns aren't just strangers passing in the night. It's gotta be dealt with. But I'm still not going to rule quad 7's dead.

Guess I'm gonna give quad 7's the pot as it was before 88 called the all-in. Basically give quads what he woulda gotten if 88 had just folded.

And then separate the two schemers and never let 'em sit together again. Maybe send the bigmouth home immediately and tell him if he tries such a stunt again he'll be banned.