7-Stud ruling question

[MichaelOar]

Thanks. I was reasonably sure that this was the rule (and this was a mighty large 30/60 pot) thus, I raised holy hell!

Floor rules that his hand is live and the verbal declaration isn't binding. Now, since his cards are now a jumbled mess, the floor also tells him that he has to put all of his cards face up on table, since he can't be sure which cards were up and which were down!? I'm of course beaten and fold.
I was a visitor in this casino, and everyone else in the stud game was a regular AND about 40 years older that I was, so I'm not sure how much that had to do with this ruling.
Thanks for the info,
Michael