| You told the truth -- your hand is dead!
Last night, while trying to decide what to do, player Q (questioner) asks player A (answerer):
Q: "Do you have a King?"
A: "Yes, I do"
The board is KK662
The questioner then turns to me and says "if he's telling the truth, his hand is dead".
I overruled that and said "just play the hand, stop trying to lawyer your way into the pot". But it did get me curious ... I can't find anything that indicates you *must* lie when asked questions about your hand.
The closest I can find are the Robert's Rules about not revealing your hand (under etiquette) but, like the TDA rules, they suggest that you may be penalized for revealing your hand but don't say your hand is dead if you tell the truth when asked questions about your hand (telling the truth could, of course, be considered "revealing" your hand).
Discussion, please. I'm especially interested in any ruleset citations (Robert's, TDA, etc) that definitively answer the question "are you *required* to lie".
I know this is one of those things that EVERYONE says is a rule, I just can't find an authoritative source for it.
I'm going to make a house rule, regardless, since I think you should be able to say anything at all, truthful or not, when interrogated about your hand. That banter, and figuring it out, is part of the game. But I'd like to know what the officially correct rule is (if there is one).  | 
