"Floor!"
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There was just a ten- or fifteen-minute disturbance over on Table 336.
It started just as the final card was dealt to the players, and Jeff Norman casually said something along the lines of, "That might have flashed," pointing at Domenico Denotaristefani's second card in the big blind. He then retracted that statement, saying he couldn't see the card. The floor was called over to begin the long (and somewhat heated) arbitration process.
The floor person initially said it was going to be a misdeal, and Denotaristefani slid his cards into the middle of the table. The dealer then told the floor that the card didn't flash, and JJ Liu was adamant that the hand should play. A quick poll of the table indicated that nobody had seen the card, or even seen that it might have flashed. The floor then reversed the ruling, allowing the hand to play, and Liu opened with an under-the-gun raise.
That set Denotaristefani off, and it ended up requiring the assistance of two additional floormen. There was a huge back-and-forth between all five players at the table, the dealer, the three floor people, and even a few spectators on the rail. Everyone was chiming in with their different stories, and it wasn't a very clear situation to try and sort through. By now, the players from the other table were all poking their heads in to see what all the fuss was about.
Floor man Charlie went around the table to gather all of the information he could, and he too had a tough time making the decision. Denotaristefani was particularly agitated, almost yelling by this point. Finally, Charlie announced that the original ruling should stand, and that it would, in fact, be a misdeal. A few people were happy about it, a few were upset (most notably JJ Liu who obviously liked her hole cards), but either way, it's on to the next shuffle to try it all again. Without the card-flashing part.