Frank,
I'm glad you got your package. There's some real good reading there. I want to respond to your recent comments.
If the player were facing a bet and released his cards forward he has a dead hand. .......Yes, he is folding, but the hand is still live until the dealer drags it into the muck.
His was a called bet and the cards were recoverable, his hand is live. ........Yes, unless it is mucked beyond recognition. In a tournament; the hand must be tabled at the showdown.
If they had hit the muck, but were clearly, 100% identifiable, his hand is live. ............If this were a cash game, I would say NO. In a tournament, if this took place on any betting street, and not the showdown, I would still have a tough time returning the hand and would have to consider why he mucked the hand when he did. Don't forget, in a cash game, a player may request to see an oponents called hand after he attemps to muck it, but the dealer should kill the hand first, and then turn it over. In a tournament, at the showdown, the difference is; the called hand can not be killed because "cards speak."
I believe this to be true in both cash games and TMT. .........So, to continue, IMO there is a big difference between cash games and tournaments.
In a tournament we have to see all called hands at the showdown. But, please don't try to pull a hand out of the muck on me in a cash game, okay?