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Controversial call @ Foxwoods WPT Main Event
November 8, 2007 |
Don’t you just hate playing hands right at the break? J.C. Tran was involved in one of those hands at yesterday’s WPT main event at Foxwoods. If you were the tournament director, what would you call be? Table action below reproduced from CardPlayer.com. Card player TV coverage of the hand can be found here.
Table #39 Update
Tran and another player were all in after a flop of 9h 9s 5c, but when Tran showed he had Jc 9c for trip nines, his opponent mucked his cards.
Well, sort of.
He tossed his cards at the dealer face down, conceding defeat and ready to leave the tournament. But the dealer turned over his hand and ran out the last two cards on the board –8h 6d. Tran’s trips had suddenly lost to the other player’s runner-runner nine-high straight.
J.C. Tran immediately questioned why the dealer turned over his opponent’s cards when he clearly mucked, and a floorperson was called over. The floorperson ruled that since the cards never physically touched the muck, and the player was all in, his hand was still live.
Tran continued to argue with the floorperson while the dealer pushed the pot to the other player, who doubled up to about 21,400. J.C. Tran is still alive with about 27,500.
Stay tuned for a Card Player video to be released later today — videographer Danny Egelhoff was right there recording all the action.
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