When dealer flips a card on the deal

Hey folks,

I'm not new at hold'em but I have a question that I was brought up the last game I was at. What is the rule on when the dealer starts to deal and one of the cards flips over by accident? Previously we just redeal the deck and some people get screwed when they have a good card thrown to them. The last game we had this happen too, one of the players was dealt pocket jacks and then the dealer flipped a card so we had to kill that hand. That could have been his comeback hand but he never got a shot at it. He was low stacked and he needed something to get back into the game. What happens when you are at a real casino and the dealer does that? Do they take all of the cards back or just that one card that was shown?


Thanks for the help!

Tim

taken from http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-rules-texas-holdem

1. If the first holecard dealt is exposed, a misdeal results. The dealer will retrieve the card, reshuffle, and recut the cards. If any other holecard is exposed due to a dealer error, the deal continues. The exposed card may not be kept. After completing the hand, the dealer replaces the card with the top card on the deck, and the exposed card is then used for the burncard. If more than one holecard is exposed, this is a misdeal and there must be a redeal.

If the first card dealt to the small or big blind is flipped, it's a misdeal.
If the first card on the button is flipped, it's a misdeal.

Any other card gets flipped, leave the card where it is and continue dealing as if nothing happened. When you have dealt all the cards out, give that player another card (face down this time :lol: ) then place the exposed card on top of the deck, face up.

Basically when this happens, the exposed card becomes the burn card, and the burn card becomes that person's second card. Make sure everyone knows what the exposed card is, then use it as the burn.

It's really not as confusing as I made it sound.

Only 3 minutes for an answer. Can't beat that.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by lonnie

If the first card dealt to the small or big blind is flipped, it's a misdeal.
If the first card on the button is flipped, it's a misdeal.

Any other card gets flipped, leave the card where it is and continue dealing as if nothing happened. When you have dealt all the cards out, give that player another card (face down this time :lol: ) then place the exposed card on top of the deck, face up.

Basically when this happens, the exposed card becomes the burn card, and the burn card becomes that person's second card. Make sure everyone knows what the exposed card is, then use it as the burn.

It's really not as confusing as I made it sound.

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EDIT: I notice someone posted a rule that differs from what I told you, which is what we do where I work. The idea behind the rule I posted - if you flip one of the blind's cards over, it's so early that you should just readeal. If you flip the button's first card over, that would mean that they would end up playing with two consecutive cards off the top of the deck, which isn't to be done so that their hand cannot be easily set.

The "casino" version of the rule expedites the game, and also minimizes the impact of the error on the non-exposed hands at the table.

After hearing the above reasoning, that method does seem much more logical, however for a home game it probably wouldn't make a ton of difference.

wow i never heard of that button rule but it makes total sense.