Hi guys!
It's been a while I haven't posted here ;-) Happy to be back!
I have another tricky one for you:
Cashgame table, blinds 1/2, 4 players in the hand, 9€ in the pot before the flop.
Dealer burns one card and put the 3 flop cards face down on the table, but before he slides them face up, a player ask a question and our dealer gets distracted while answering. He comes back on the initial action, sees those 3 cards face down and, dealer's reflex, puts them in the muck.
Now the floor is called at the table (I wasn't there that day) and offers two options to the players:
1. Void the hand
2. reshuffle the deck without the muck and the burn card
Option 1 is refused by the players, they want to play that hand, so they choose option 2.
Player A bets and everybody folds...
I guess there is no ideal solution in that situation as it happens once in a century, but I'd like to hear what you think and how you would rule this...
We had a long chat afterwards about what to do and we ended up with 3 "solutions":
1. reshuffling the deck without the muck and the burn card
2. Reshuffling the deck with the muck and without the burn card
3. Randomly draw 3 cards from the muck to create a new flop. You keep original turn and river and you add some chances to redraw part of the initial flop
I kinda like the 3rd option but option 2 seems the most logical for me.
Thanks for your attention!