All In With No Cards

"All in! I'm all in!" we heard someone say with a loud voice over on table 36 in the Amazon Room.

We rushed over to see what was going on. The flop was out, it read something like , and the button was making sure the entire table and dealer knew he was all in.

But... the player on the button didn't have any cards. In fact, no one at the table had cards. The dealer had skipped the preflop action and had just gotten busy burning and dealing a flop. These 10 a.m. starts are early for everyone.

Verbal was, in this case, not binding. The dealer removed the flop, started a new shuffle, and this time dealt the players their cards.