Floor!
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All right, how about some controversy right before the break, hmm?
We walked over to Nick Binger's table just as he was doubling up. Well, kind of. The board showed 
, and Binger's 
had made the second nuts. His opponent had turned Broadway with 
, but the story wasn't done yet. We need to back up to the turn action.
When the had hit fourth street, Binger led out with a bet, and Mike Trelski raised to 75,000. Both men thought that it represented a covering raise, and Binger announced the call. The cards were turned up by both men, and the dealer burned and turned the river. Everything was going along just fine until Binger's chips were counted down, and Binger had about 86,000 of them. Oops. "Floor!"
It took four floorpersons and about eight minutes to sort out the problem. Trelski at one point tried to claim that the hands should be dead because they were exposed. "I hate to be this guy," he began, and when he finished his proposal, Binger just laughed at the suggestion with an open mouth. In the end, the floor ruled that the river card would be shuffled back into the deck and run back out again, with both players having the option to bet or check. The main decision-maker also decided not to enforce the penalty that can come with exposing your hand out of turn. In any event, the ruling basically ended the hand because Trelski couldn't even call a bet of the proverbial wooden nickel with his un-improvable hand.
So Binger just collected the 75,000-chip raise and stacked up the near-double-up to move up towards 200,000.