Before anything, I would like to say first that I admire you so much for all the efforts you’ve done on this site and also for all the great, helpful information you’ve shared. And thanks as your site has been a great help to millions of poker enthusiasts.

Well, now, I would like to share with you why I am here. I would like to ask something about exposing turn card.

At a certain poker room, the turn card was disregarded and for the flop betting round the action was completed. Afterwards, the dealer burned a card and then turned it up. It would have been the river card actually.

Eventually, betting round started and right after the dealer shuffled the cards that were left which included the card that was exposed for the turn. And without burning a card, he then turned the river card.

In your own point of view, should the card exposed at the turn be the only card changed? And that such card still can come out on the river eventually?

What do you think? Any thoughts?

I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks again and congrats for the site!

Stubblefield
Stubblefield,

What you witnessed is one way to take care of a problem of exposing the turn early. The card at the turn is the only card that needed to be changed. And yes, there are times that this will result in the same card coming out on the river.

The above example is probably the fairest way to resolve an early turn card.

In a cash NL game held yesterday, I was the dealer. Unfortunately, I made a mistake. The player to act first placed a bet right after the flop. I remember he had a caller then. A player was in the hand, however his cards were concealed behind his hand and it was an honest mistake, I forgot he was still in the hand. Turn card came and I flipped it over before he made a move. Just few seconds after, he announced that he was going to call and therefore the hand continued.

Any comments about what happened? Base on the rules, was everything acceptable?

Thanks!

Landon Woffer
Landon,

If I were there, I would have let it go with the way it happened. In a casino, it is the call of the floor person. Some may let it go at his word and others may require that you pull back the turn and burn and turn a new turn. Then you take the old turn card, put it back in the deck, shuffle it, and then burn and turn the river.

Just last Sunday evening, I played NL Texas Holdem with several friends. At preflop, me and a very close friend of mine went all in. By the way, in the hand, it was just me and him. Eventually, we opted to lay our cards down. Back then, I have Ace King suited while he has Ace Deuce suited. Flop came while he held his deuce. Next was, turn came and was a king. Dealer finally knew that he didn’t burn a card before he has laid the king down.

What’s on your thoughts on this? And what if this happens in a casino or card room? By the way, do you think the king should remain or be burnt or what?

I hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks!

Bryant
Bryant,

In this event, the king becomes the burn card, and another turn card is dealt. Sorry about your bad luck there.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Miller
Miller,

What should have happened is that the player be allowed to complete the action on the flop and then the turn betting occurred. There was no reason to give everyone back their money.

I played poker with some friends yesterday evening. At some point, three players were playing a hand and right after the turn card, one of them folded and threw the cards on another player’s hand rather on the muck pile, which I guess should be actually. Later, the player with buried cards can’t remember the cards he had and therefore just wanted to call it a misdeal. Eventually, he wanted his chips back. Any thoughts about what happened? What do you think should we have done? Please, I need to hear from you.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Boddicker
Boddicker,

If this happened in a casino, the floor person would take the person that folded aside and ask him what he folded. The floor person would then look at the four cards and remove what the person that folded said. That is what you should have done here as well.

I would be suspicious about the person that claimed he didn’t know what he had. It sounds like he was just trying to get his money returned.