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I've never called a misdeal after this much action, but I think you have to in this case. All the action occurred before the cards were distributed, and when the distribution of cards becomes this messed up, you've got to "no action" this hand.

Eager to see what RR ruled.

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There is something else I forgot to include. This hand took place at about 1:38 and at 1:34 I had announced "last three hands" so everyone is playing as fast as they possibly can because they want to get out of there to beat the traffic as the casinos are about to close (by law). It appeared the button did not have time to protect his hand as the dealer had not yet returned the exposed burn card to the top of the deck, so I had the dealer give him the top card off the deck. A number of people suggested I should have killed his hand. Later (after I made the OP here) I looked up what the local gaming regulation says and found this.


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47.1-1021 Dealing. A card dealt must be the top card of the deck. After the first card of the hand has been dealt to a player, the deal continues in a clockwise direction. The order of cards may not be disturbed during the deal of a round, except in the remedy of too few cards or for the purposes of error correction in the event of an exposed card.

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From the part that I bolded it appears that the Division of Gaming recognizes that a player is entitled to the correct number of cards and might even permit going back and giving a player a card if they are skipped during the initial deal.