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Now that I reread it, it doesn't appear that he went anywhere, but was just distracted from the game maybe standing next to his chair but physically there doing his thing.

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Right. And the reason I'm pretty fuzzy with detail is I was obviously not paying close enough attention or I wouldn't have folded my cards from the 3-seat as all this was happening. They'd broken a table, a couple folks were coming in, this guy set his chips down on the table while standing behind he chair and the dealer dealt him in. That's about the last I was watching the 10-seat. I see the 1-seat and 2-seat fold, look at may rags and toss 'em in. Watch everybody else fold to the blinds and suddenly the 1-seat puts in a big stack of chips and the blind starts grumbling.

The dealer should have been able to stop the action before it got too far, but dealers get distracted, and blaming the dealer solves nothing. I don't blame the 10-seat for failing to stop the action--he's distracted with the move. Don't blame the 1-seat for acting outta turn since he couldn't easily see that a new player was coming in to the 10-seat. Any other player at the table coulda been paying attention but wasn't. Don't blame the blind for thinking the raise shouldn't be allowed. It's pretty much a no-fault kinda issue that regardless needs to be resolved.