A Bizarre End To The Level
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Esther Taylor was all in, with Hoyt Corkins and a third unknown player involved with the pot. The controversy started on sixth street when Taylor was not dealt a sixth-street card before her opponent was dealt his river card.
The floor was called and play had to be backtracked. The burn card should actually have been Taylor's sixth street card, and the river card that was dealt, should've been the burn.
The only problem was the player had allegedly already mixed his cards, which meant that no one could be sure which card was the river, other than the player himself who denied mixing and was happy to return the face-down card. The players at the table disagreed, and said that he had mixed the cards, and therefore the floor staff had to go to security tapes to check if he had indeed mixed his cards.
This took several minutes, but was the correct and fairest decision for all involved, especially since a rather perplexed Taylor had her tournament life on the line.
Fifteen minutes after the hand commenced and into the dinner break, and the word from security was that the cards had been mixed, so the player was forced to keep that card and the hand played out.
The unknown player fired a river bet and Corkins folded (
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face-up. Taylor showed (
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for the high to split with her opponent who flipped (
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for the low.A bizarre, and in the end, rather anti-climactic ending to the level, but one that was very well handled by the staff and players involved.