Any TD who declared the AA a dead hand isn"t worth paying for and should be put against the wall and shot.
The trouble is there are no set rules for poker either in the UK or the US.
The TDA are trying to change this. This link is for the latest TDA rules http://www.pokertda.com/poker-tda-rules/
This is true but the TDAs rules are deliberately a lot shorter than the "overall" "rulebook".
Even so the TDA wouldn"t kill the hand..
A penalty may be invoked if a player exposes any card with action pending, throws a card off the table, violates the one-player-to-a-hand rule, or similar incidents occur. Penalties will be invoked in cases of soft play, abuse, disruptive behavior, or cheating. Penalties available to the tournament director include verbal warnings, "missed hand" penalties, and disqualification.
.
Without getting into it too much (2+2 wise)...players seem to be of the opinion that hands should be ruled dead as a penalty and that"s almost impossible to justify.
