Dealer mixes the Flop with muck cards

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

I hate it when people deal it that way, it always seems to result in something getting [censored] up.

[PantsOnFire]

My own ruling here would be to consider the burn and flop cards to be four random cards that are not longer in the deck and proceed as normal with the stub you have left. If the bottom four cards of the stub somehow dropped into the muck, who would have a problem with that? This is the top four. They are all random and unexposed.

Mixing the mucked hands into the deck and reshuffling sound like a bad idea to me. When people fold, they do not usually throw high paint away. So for a guy with AK, the deck would now be richer with As and Ks. Mixing in low cards would reduce this richness.

Checking it down is probably the worst thing and simulates all-in protection in the online environment. I would have been pissed just like AK guy was.