@kalashnikov
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Hello, my awful danish friend. It's almost nice to hear from you! 😁
Soooooo! OK, this is always tough to rule on something you haven't seen yourself, or at least, been explained in detail by the dealer and the table. Reason being, the precise way things happen at the table can have a direct incidence on whether or not we are going to apply the "technical" rule (play by the books), or change to something less conventional, but which is a better fit for the situation.
That being said, in this situation, since almost half of the remaining stub was seen by a third of the table, and by dealor error, I'm not opposed to declaring this a misdeal EVEN THOUGH it's not supposed to be one (because there has been substantial action already). This is NOT the ruling by the book, but I do feel like this is a better fit for the situation.
Technically, you're supposed to re-shuffle the whole stub without the mucked cards but then again, how hard (or easy) is it to determine which cards have already been mucked in this situation? Can we know for sure? If we do know exactly, then yes, reshuffle the stub and keep the action going. If we don't know, that would mean your option would be to reshuffle everything, which I'm reaaally not a fan of.
Without having seen the situation first hand, I would probably use rule n°1 of TDA and declare this a misdeal. Too many things gone wrong at the same time, by dealer error, no money in the pot except for that one guy... tough for him but I think it's in the game's best interest.
It's an interesting case!