I'm Sorry John, I Don't Remember

With just two levels of play left in the evening, the surviving short stacks are getting their chips into the middle at a rapid fire clip, and John Tech did the same after the flop fell .

Tech held the , and his opponent snap-called while tabling the for an open-ended straight draw.

Turn:
River:

With that, the dealer mucked Tech's pair of jacks and prepared to push the pot to the player who made the straight. Which would have been fine, of course, except for the fact that four-card straights simply don't count here at the World Series of Poker.

Tech, for his part, did not react when his cards were mucked, and his opponent sat still as a stone, waiting to see if he could possibly win the pot with eight-high. Finally, just as the pile of chips was being pushed in the wrong direction, another player at the table spoke up to correct the error.

"He wins, right?," said the player, pointing toward Tech.

"Straight," answered the dealer confidently, arranging the alongside the flop to show the winning hand that never was. Eventually, the mistake was sorted out, and Tech's jacks were retrieved from the muck so that the pot could be awarded to its rightful owner.

"That would've been a tough beat there," said another player at the table, while Tech simply smiled and counted his new chips.

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