'Orrible win for Ortiz
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If anyone out there was betting on how long it would take for the first Latin flare up the payout line is at 65 minutes and you can thank/curse last year’s LAPT Chile winner Fabian Ortiz for that. Ortiz had tossed his hand into the middle on the river of a 
board. His opponent had to show his hand to win the pot and turned over pocket nines. Ortiz then retrieved his hand to show 
winning with his queen kicker. Then all hell broke loose.
My Spanish is just about functional but following the international language of arm waving and hand waggling was enough to discern that his opponent was saying the hand had been mucked. The tournament director was called and the ruling was made that because Ortiz’s cards were 100% attributable to him - and that there had been no betting on the river - the hand was still live. Ortiz raked in a chunky pot and is on 35,000.