Re: Showing At Showdown
Woo, finally someone able to take the house side in this eternal question! Okay, let's go... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
So, there's a penalty if the person turbo-mucks after having the only remaining hand. If everybody folds to me on the turn and I turbo-muck before getting shipped the pot (something I'd never do, but run with me), do I get a penalty? No? Okay, so, at showdown, I get a penalty? Then who gets the pot? I do? Okay, then, if the rules state I get the pot with the last live hand, why the penalty? What have I violated?
I know some casinos force you, I just think that's goofy. What are you doing other than satisfying curiosity, effectively forcing IWTSTH for the same silly reason everybody invokes it?
As to playing the board... we had this come up last week, someone mucked while saying, "I'm playing the board." I remember reading in some rulebook somewhere that this was valid, and I certainly considered it such.
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