Accidental Fold

August 18, 2008 by 0490.

Situation:  Friendly home tournament game.  Heads up play.  The flop is out.  Player A bets and Player B raises.  Player B turns around  to get his drink. Player A picks their cards up off of the table.  Player B turns around and sees no cards on the table and throws their hand into the middle.  Player A says thats a fold, with the cards still in front of their face.  Player B says , I did not see the cards and thought they were folded.  Player B’s cards did not hit the burn cards or anything else and were very clearly identifiable.  I grabbed them and said no it is not a fold because you had your cards off of the table.  I asked Player A to keep their cards on the table and I asked Player B to make sure of the action that has been taken before cards are thrown in.  I realize I should have immediately asked Player A to keep their cards on the table but I did not catch it this time.  The player had constantly been picking up their cards and had been warned many times.  There were some statements that in a casino that the cards would have been folded.  I just am not sure.  I feel like the best interest of the game was served because Player A did something that induced a bad move by Player B.  I really feel like Player A may have done it to try to get the action that was taken.  Good or bad decision??

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