AUSTIN–I\’m still in the Texas heartland, and I couldn\’t have left here without playing some cards. All went well while playing an un-raked game at a bar that gives out awesome cheesy truckers\’ hats to its patrons. I had \”Brad Beats\” sitting to my right — his hat said \”If I wanted to hear an asshole, I would fart\” — and he and I got into it about a rule that I know all too well.
You see, I made a mistake and dealt the turn prematurely. Right right, I know what you are thinking … But Dan, we have gone over this one time and time again! I know. But apparently Brad Beats hasn\’t been reading his Pokerati everyday like he should, and he thought he knew the right way to rectify this dealer misstep.
Cool, I will bet you $100 you are wrong, I retorted.
\”Dude, I\’ve seen this happen two times in Las Vegas, so I know I am right!\”
OK, then how \’bout $1,000? I\’ll even give you 5-to-1 odds. (It\’s fun to have a potential prop bet where you are virtually certain to be holding the nuts …)
The dispute was whether or not, when reshuffling the errantly exposed card … do you include the discards? Or is it just \”the stub.\”
Ever the political arbitrator, Lavigne in Austin — who was wearing a hat that said \”At my age sex isn\’t really like the 4th of July … it\’s more like Thanksgiving\” — offered to call Bob Ciaffone (who is on the Board of the Texas Poker PAC) to settle the matter, but in the end, not to spark a brawl, Sweet Texas Jimmy just mucked his hand to make it irrelevant, and we agreed to look it up later.
Anyhow, Brad … just wanted to let you know I will now bet you $1 million dollars that you are wrong, and give you infinity odds.
If only making poker legal was this easy …