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I was dealing once. As soon as I spread the flop, another dealer ran up behind me, yelling, "Get up! Get up!"

I thought maybe there was something under my chair, so I stood.

"Drop the deck!"

Now I thought there was something under my chair, and it was on fire. I dropped the deck in a way to make it retrievable. There was nothing under my chair, and I was thoroughly confused.

"Go see the floorman."

The floorman was at the front podium. He wasn't smiling. He was holding the telephone receiver, indicating that I had a phone call.

It was midnight. I've never received good news by telephone, at midnight, in the middle of a hand I was dealing.

It was my wife, calling me from a parking lot as she watched a building burn down. The building we lived in, of course.

I think that's an example of a GOOD reason to push a dealer in the middle of a hand. It's a very short list.

(This was a while ago. Nobody was hurt, and nothing that couldn't be replaced was lost.)