[Al_Capone_Junior]

If you properly protect your hand INCLUDING ON THE RIVER then the question is irrelevant. IRRELEVANT. NO "WHAT IF" SCENARIOS, NOTHING, IRRELEVANT.

I believe I accidentally mucked the winner by misreading my hand once about 9 years ago, costing myself a moderately sized pot in a 6-12 game at the mirage. But there was no "what if scenario" because the dealer did their job and mucked my cards as soon as I tossed them in face down.

The underlying problems with all these threads (and this one too) are as follows:

1. WPT trained idiots learn everything useless and irritating about poker and SKIP ALL THE IMPORTANT STUFF. Thus they can tell you it's 220:1 that you'll get aces before the flop, they can pointlessly stall and waste everyone's time stupidly imitating the major jerkoffs on television, but they have no clue how to behave, what the proper ettiquette is, or how to protect their own hand. To all these people who read this: TURN OFF YOUR FRIGGIN' TELEVISION.

2. Dealers don't know diddly about poker and don't care to learn because they are just jumping on the poker bandwagon looking for easy money. Also included here are the morons running the cardrooms and casinos who also blindly jump on the bandwagon without thinking, caring, or bothering to make sure their employees act professionally.

So just PROTECT YOUR FRIGGIN' HAND ALREADY and forget the survey.

Al