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If we had noticed the extra cards during the first hand after action had taken place (say one of them came out on the turn) would it have been a misdeal or should the xtra cards have been removed and the deck reshuffled?

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It would be void hand and all bets returned to the bettors. The exception is a player who gets one of these cards and doesn't immediately say something and allows action to occur. In that case that player does not get his bets back.

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psand,

Not sure if you're agreeing with me or not?

THis is from Robert's Rules: A joker that appears in a game where it is not used is treated as a scrap of paper. Discovery of a joker does not cause a misdeal. If the joker is discovered before a player acts on his or her hand, it is replaced as in the previous rule. If the player does not call attention to the joker before acting, then the player has a dead hand.

There are a few situations where having the extra cards in the deck would cause a misdeal but I don't think the op's descriptions of events "joker appearing as turn card" would cause a misdeal.