Horrible Ruling

Yeah, a dealer not concentrating, or not even bothering to try and concentrate on the game can result in errors.

I remember a UKIPT event at DTD, and a hand that involved Tim Blake. The dealer (she no longer works there now) was acting as though she'd rather be anywhere else than at that table, and unfortunately she was pretty much always like this. Anyway, there was a hand involving Tim in seat 1 and a player in seat 9. Tim had gone all in on a AKT board (I think that was the board anyway, it's not that relevant) and the other player was thinking through his options and had asked for a count (he had Tim covered). The dealer, sat between the two of them, was looking away elsewhere, waving her hands around talking to someone. Before the other player got the count, the dealer managed to clip one of her arms on the table, launching the remaining cards in the deck into the air, where they flipped over and then landed on the table - most of them face-up.

The player who had been thinking now had some free information and he's obviously looking at the cards that have landed on the table, scanning for cards that he can eliminate from Tim's hand. At this point, the dealer froze. Instead of quickly collecting the spilt cards she just sat there. A few of us suggested she'd better collect them in ASAP and then call the floor over. She did that, and the floor came over and the (correct) ruling was given that the cards would be shuffled and if the player calls, the turn and river would then be dealt. The player did call (think he had KT for two pair) and I can't remember what Tim had - but he finished second in the hand and that meant he was out of the comp. He'd have had every right to have a go at the dealer, but instead he bidded the other player nice hand and good game, wished the rest of us good luck and departed gracefully.

I bet he was fuming inside.