7 players.
6 players min call. Dealer goes all in. SB, BB, HJ, and CO call.
Flop is Ah, 10d, Js. SB bets. BB notices an unrevealed card under the first card of the flop. BB reaches over and reveals the the hidden 8d.
What should happen to the 8d?
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If this was a cash game, then probably players can agree to do whatever they want. If it was a tournament then probably TDA (tournament director) would have to intervene and decide what to do based on the casino rules.
Originally posted by DmPoker
7 players.6 players min call. Dealer goes all in. SB, BB, HJ, and CO call.
Flop is Ah, 10d, Js. SB bets. BB notices an unrevealed card under the first card of the flop. BB reaches over and reveals the the hidden 8d.
What should happen to the 8d?
Hi DmPoker,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com 
Mis-deal procedure should be understood by all from the beginning of the game.
This hand is clearly at a home game — or at least not using professional dealers. A charity event perhaps.
In home games where I have played, the procedure has almost always been that a misdeal results in a void hand, and all cards are returned to the deck, and all bets are returned to the players.
That having been said, I've never participated in a hand where the misdeal happened after the flop. The problem now is the "bets returned to the players" part, since people likely don't actually know exactly.
If it was my game, I would first bark at BB for touching cards on the board, then declare that the 8♦: is a dead card.
Alternatives:
make the 8♦: available to any hand that wants it.
return the 8♦: to the deck and shuffle (see below)
I found this that might help:
If a card is revealed before betting action is complete, it cannot stay. Again, burns and such may be adjusted to make other cards fall as they would if desired, but what's important is that the early card is rejected and betting must be completed before a new card is shown. A common Hold'em rule is that if the premature exposure is the flop or river, the deck (minus player cards and burns) is reshuffled after action is complete. If the early card is the turn, then it is placed aside, the betting completed, then the card that would have been the river becomes the turn, and the early turn card is returned to the stub, which is reshuffled before the river.