NL Tourney question

[yoursmine]

In my local league if a player accidentally exposes both of his hole cards with cards still to come the action is checked down with no further betting allowed. Reasons and cites for this??

[psandman]

The reason would be that who ever is making the decisions doesn't understand poker.

If I am playing in your game and a big pot develops while I'm on a draw I can flip up my cards get to draw for free? That makes lots of sense.

[ShannonRyu]

sounds like a cool varient... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Agent Zero]

If we're talking about a cash game, it's his own fault -- he gets to play the rest of the hand with his cards exposed.

In a tournament, this compromises the rest of the table because everyone has an interest in each hand -- it's supposed to work that the play continues normally but the moron who exposed his cards gets a one-orbit penalty.

psandman is right -- the league made a nonstandard (and quite stupid) ruling.

[Lottery Larry]

Bad rule- maybe freeze the exposed card's betting privileges, but to freeze the rest of the players? As psand said, easy to take advantage of.