this situation really bothered me last night, ruling please.

[TxRedMan]

i'm playing in a 30-60 omaha eight or better game last night. generally speaking, there is far more confusion at showdown in this game than any other, and i often find myself helping the dealers (especially in LV) when we're at showdown. it speeds up the game, and since most dealers are on rotation, they might deal 50 hands a week of LO8 at some card rooms.

where i am it's different, as this is the only game spread most of the time, so the dealers are usually pretty solid, and leaps and bounds faster than most dealers in LV (i saw at least one pot incorrectly awarded during the WSOP this year, and it didnt occur to me until after the fact since i wasnt in the hand and didnt want to stop the game for harrahs to review the tape. trips on board, no one has a pp, and dealer gives the pot to the guy who had a pair on the board, when AK was the best hand)

back to the point.

i'm in the blind with J-2-4-6 and I call a bet on the flop multiway on a board of 9-6-3. turn comes a 2, and gets checked around. River comes a J, and it gets checked through.

I had been playing for about eight hours, it was two in the morning, and i wasn't totally focused, but i was in the mindset of- "my low got counterfeited, i have two small pair".

at showdown i table my hand and declare sixes and twos, no low. i table my hand and spread it. another player shows middle and bottom pair, and a weak low wins the low end. as the dealer looks around at all four hands he kills my hand, and the other hand that didnt have any high/low. as he's pushing the pot to the players, a player next to me says, "wait a minute, you had jacks up" at which point it occurs to me i wasn't even considering my dangler, i had mis-read my hand. three people said they saw my hand, and i tabled it. the dealer and myself made the mistake of misreading it.

i dont get any reimbursement.

next time i go i'll talk to the floor, because i think this is wrong, and i think the house should reimburse the $80 or so that i would have gotten from the pot.

this is an underground room, but it's nice, it caters to a nice/older crowd, and they take a high rake if that matters.