DCJ,
I will quote one of your earlier posts on this topic:
"The potential problem is in the case of a misdeal or if the player who is first to act who pushes all in preflop without having been dealt cards distracts the dealer by doing so, causing this player to be dealt only one card, and when the next player calls, binding the first player's action, what does he do then?"
I don't know how that distracts the dealer. If any player is short a card it would almost never be a player UTG. The most probable will be the last card dealt before the burn and flop, which is the button's second card. This is usually not a problem because the button will draw attention to it before play resumes. If some strange event occurs, where the button continues play without realizing that he is short one card, then he has to suffer the consiquences. All of the board cards would be altered and it would be too late to call for a misdeal. My question is; would this player be allowed to participate and compete for the pot, one card short? Does anyone think that he should be given a second card? I understand that a player looking at one card and continuing to play without looking at his second hole card could be in trouble if he discovers the other card to be a joker. Yikes! Would you kill his hand even if he realized his mistake, but still wanted to compete?
I know these are unusual situations but, it's always good to play them out like this so we can prepare ourselves when they occur.