Ted Forrest NOT Eliminated
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If Ted Forrest wins this tournament, he better tip a dealer named Kojo very, very heavily.
We came by Forrest's table as the river was being dealt. Forrest was all in against Keith Sexton. Sexton had apparently already told Forrest that he had three jacks. Forrest told Sexton that he had two pair.
Somehow, as the river cards were being dealt, Kojo the dealer skipped Forrest, delivered a river card to Sexton and dropped the stub onto the burn cards. Forrest then asked where his river card was.
A floor was summoned, who ruled that Sexton should keep the river card that was supposed to have been Forrest's. The stub would be reshuffled along with the burn cards, and then Forrest would receive a new river.
"It would be really sick if that card fills me up," said Forrest. It turned out that Sexton received an 8, a card which did not fill Sexton up.
"It would be even sicker if this card fills me up, said Sexton. His board showed 
. He squeezed his river and then looked at Sexton as if to say, "Sorry." He opened 
in the hole for nines full of deuces. Predictably, Sexton exploded in anger.
"Jesus Christ! I can't even win a pot and then you gotta do that!" He shouted at Kojo that Kojo needed to pay attention to what he was doing. Sexton also was unhappy with the floor ruling.
"I agree with you Keith," said Forrest. "I happened to benefit from it but I think it sucks. But Kojo, I'm going to try to win the tournament now."
"I hate poker for sh*t like this," said Sexton.
"THAT's why you hate poker?" asked David Grey. The table then started discussing how, at least online, there are no dealer errors. That prompted Forrest to state his wish that Full Tilt Poker would use a "real deck" the way PokerStars does.
"How can Dustin Wolfe beat me heads-up playing limit hold'em online every single time? The worst player in the world should win some. I won't even play him online anymore. Live is a different story." Forrest felt that some people have learned how to "time the algorithm" online, or at least have a good feel for it.
That conversation caught the attention of Perry Friedman, sitting one table behind. "Unless you can outsmart quantum randomness, it's impossible to time it," said Friedman. "If you hit the button at the exact same millisecond in a parallel universe, you'd get a different card."
Forrest didn't seem so certain about that, but it's hard to argue Friedman's knowledge of the FTP software. Whatever the story, Forrest is still in the tournament due to Kojo's error. He has 15,800, and a very pissed off Sexton has about 36,000.