Milo;348311 wroteYeah, that is a possibility, too . . . so again, tourney or cash game, if the hands are identifiable, turn them over and let the cards speak. If not, I would say split the side pot between the two dummies and give 'em both a KITN.
It was a tournament and yes, the two muckers were not all in, so none of our cards were turned. They mucked into the muck pile and probably could have identified their cards, but what the did was split the side pot.
The other possible option we discussed was giving the side pot to the player to the left of the button.
We've been playing under a house rule that a muck is always dead, and splitting the pot as we did was done reluctantly. However, in researching this ruling, I've discovered that there is a provision in the rules that if a mucked hand can be clearly identified, it can be returned to the player and used, as long as it was an accidental muck and there were no additional developments in the hand after the muck.
Can you tell me how prevalent this rule of returning the muck is? Our friendly neighbourhood game includes a couple of guys who go to Vegas a couple of times a year and they always talk about how "in Vegas, a muck is a muck, you can't get it back". Is this generally true, or can you usually get your mistaken muck back?
Cheers.