[psandman]

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I was just in a home game playing some NL, it had gotten kind of wild and people weren't paying a whole lot of attention at times. I was in the SB and most of the 10 people at the table limped, I completed, we see a flop. It comes, checks around to the dealer who bets. I call, someone else calls, and the dealer burns and turns. It gives me a good draw, so I pop out a bet, next person folds, then the person who was in the CO seat says "I'm still in, and I woulda called" and puts in the $4 or whatever the flop bet was. Then he raises allin, I call w/ my 4 billion outs and he flips over a straight, which he would have been calling a gutshot on the flop.

Does anyone know what the "official" ruling would be for something like this? I didn't care too much, as its a friendly game, and that guy was hopped up on painkillers and alcohol since he got 2 of his fingers partially cut off a week earlier! I didn't want to raise a fuss due to these reasons, but should I have at the time I bet the turn? If so, what could have been done? Thanks!

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CO's hand is dead. There has been substantial action (a bet and a fold) and he failed to protect his right to act by stopping the action as soon as the dealer burned and turned. Since he didn't call the flop bet his hand is dead.

Now in a friendly home game you might not want to do that (I would only make this ruling in a home game if the player was a chronic angle shooter), but you asked what the "official" decision would be.