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Whether I'm the dealer or a player, fling the joker into a mounted, peeled banana and keep dealing as if the joker were not part of the deck. The presence of the joker effects the hand not one bit.
For me, I agree with everyone here that says, throw the joker aside and continue dealing. The fact that the joker was there does not affect the outcome of the hand. I agree with you about the folders getting their money back. Not a big deal but it's the principal. However, if it was his games and that's what he wanted to do then it's his house but...
this goes back to what I always preach. WRITTEN HOUSE RULES - WRITTEN HOUSE RULES - WRITTEN HOUSE RULES - Either you create them from scratch, use an existing set off the net, or a combo of both. That way, the situation is dealt as per the house rules. So, if the host's rules stated it's a dead hand, then it's dead. No one should complain because everyone should have read the house rules. If it's unfair, then you can talk to the guy and he can change it for the next games or what ever he feels is fair.
At my game, this is situation is covered and we would have tossed the joker and continued dealing. We also check the decks before starting out the night to prevent this from happening.
Here is what happened to me last night - there was a flop about 3 hours into our poker night that read... 3h-Ks-3h... So, not only were there to of the same card in the deck, but one card was missing as well. The deck was trashed obviously, but we decided that because someone hit a boat off of it that he take down the relatively small pot (four limpers = four bucks). But in the future I will always have rules and a fanned, counted, and suited deck for the game...
gabe
sorry if this is a hijack! I would have nulled the joker too though...
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