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I’ve found that I’m very good at limit tournaments, HORSE, Omaha O/8 and even Hold ‘em, but when it comes to NL I seem to have many more problems. I’m not sure if it’s just because I play more hands and suck out in the limit games (I don’t think I do) or what the problem is, but I don’t cash nearly as often in NL as I do in limit. Any idea why that might be?
Here’s an example of what happened the last time I played NL. I was rockin along, we were down to the final 5 (with 4 paying) and I wasn’t the shortest stack, but I was on the short side. I had about 17K in chips with the blinds at 1K/2K and a 300 ante. UTG limps and I look down to see A7 suited. I raised it up to 10K. Should I have gone all in? UTG saw the bet with Q4 and when the flop was 744, down the hole I went. So, what should I have done?
So, I was playing a tournament style NLHE game at a bar this afternoon. I’m rather familiar with the rules of NLHE, as I run a game at a different bar. I was to left of the dealer and went all in. The BB is the only caller. I have K-10 off and flipped my cards over. The dealer hadn’t pulled in the muck pile and my cards hit the pile. Unfortunately, my 10 hit at a little bit of an angle and flipped face down on the pile. Completely inadvertant, so I just moved my K off of it and flipped over my 10. No one said a word until after I won the pot. As I’m raking the chips, someone else at the table, who was not involved in the hand, pointed out what had happened and said that my hand was technically burned.
I referenced page 11 of Robert’s Rules of Poker, section 2 under Dead Hands. It is my understanding that it is in the best interest of the game for my hand to still be live. I was not intentionally mucking my cards. It was completely accidental and my facedown card was the top card on the muck pile. I didn’t have to sort through the pile to find the card.
Please let me know that I wasn’t cheating by interpreting the rule as I did.