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Op is fine because this is a showdown and the action is over.


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No this is the wrong reason. A player may not tell another player to table his hand just because it is showdown. However OP doesn't get a kick in the nuts here because he didn't speak until it was clear that the player was trying to table his hand.


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No sir. It is a showdown, and the "one player to a hand" rule no longer applies.


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Where is that written? Cards don't speak until they are tabled. One card isn't "cards".



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Reading comprehension? The Villian only turned over one card and the Noob only turned over one card. Why does the Noob get screwed?


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Because he inadvertently mucked his hand.


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If I read the OP correctly the Noob is the only trying to table a hand. How can the Villian's single card be live if the Noob's isn't?


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Once the Noob "mucked" his hand the villain tecnically doesn't have to show both of his cards.


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He didn't muck, the floor ruled his hand dead.

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Unfortunately it was ruled that he did muck. From the OP:

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... and the inexperienced player tries to flip up his cards but only the already exsposed queen gets flipped up, and both cards end up in the middle.


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From Robert's Rules:
Cards thrown into the muck may be ruled dead. However, a hand that is clearly identifiable may be retrieved and ruled live at management's discretion if doing so is in the best interest of the game. An extra effort should be made to rule a hand retrievable if it was folded as a result of incorrect information given to the player.

I think this should have been ruled a live hand "in the best interests of the game" but it wasn't.