Dead Hands

1. Your hand is declared dead if:

• You fold or announce that you are folding when facing a bet or a raise.



• You throw your hand away in a forward motion causing another player to act behind you (even if not facing a b et).



• In stud, when facing a bet, you pick your upcards off the table, turn your upcards facedown, or mix your upca rds and downcards together.



• The hand does not contain the proper number of cards for that poker form (except at stud a hand missing the f inal card may be ruled live, and at lowball and draw high a hand with too few cards before the draw is live). [See Section 16 - ?Expl anations,? discussion #4, for more information on the stud portion of this rule.]



• You act on a hand with a joker as a holecard in a game not using a joker. (A player who acts on a hand withou t looking at a card assumes the liability of finding an improper card, as given in Irregularities, rule #8.)



• You have the clock on you when facing a bet or raise and exceed the specified time limit.

2. Cards thrown into the muck may be ruled dead. However, a hand that is clearly identifiable may be retrieved if doing so is in the best interest of the game. An extra effort should be made to rule a hand retrievable if it was folded as a result of false infor mation given to the player.

3. Cards thrown into another player's hand are dead, whether they are faceup or facedown.