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Originally Posted by SandmanDC Other than the two players involved, the dealer is the only other person to call the outcome. If the cards are in the muck, player 1 wins. |
if you really want to be technical about it ONLY what the dealer says matters, not any of the players involved. And ONLY the dealer can award the pot, so player 1 was raking the pot prematurely.
Unless the house rules state differently, cards speak, period, no matter who points out what the correct hand is it is the dealers obligation to award the pot to the highest hand, no matter if the player called it correctly or if a bystander corrected a misread hand.
And I agree with i run 8s, unless it is in the house rules just because they hit the muck or were discarded with a mucking motion does not make them dead. If they are readily identifiable and retrievable from the muck they can remain active. Based on the account given I would say that at the very least the cards were "mucked" face up which of course would make them readily identifiable and retrievable.
Therefore IMO withstanding any written house rules it is Player 2's pot.
