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Sahara 11pm tourney and it's getting near the money. Shortstack goes all-in with KJ and gets called by AQs who has her covered. Cards are flipped face up, the board is dealt and a J comes up. Guy with AQs flips 'em face down after the river is dealt with a "that sucks" comment. Only turns out he had a flush. Oh... fine, turn the cards back face up. Only the lady is now outraged! Nononooooo! He mucked his cards! Give me my pot! HE MUCKED! CALL THE FLOOR! Floor comes over and once he gets the whole story instantly makes the obvious and correct call--soon as the river card was dealt the hand was done and turning the winning cards over at the end doesn't change that (even if the cards had been tossed into the muck it wouldn't have changed the outcome, but in this case they were just turned face down in front of the player). Lady (and at this point using the term "lady" is stretching things a bit) let fly a "THIS IS BULLSH..!" and stormed out.

That wasn't as interesting as the earlier event. As they were combining down to two tables, a player came over and started to sit in the 10-seat. Cards were dealt to him as he was still moving his chips over and sitting down. But the person in the 1-seat didn't see that a new player was coming in, so soon as the 9-seat acted, the 1-seat folded as did the 2-seat, 3-seat, 4-seat, 5-seat, 6-seat. About this time the 10-seat guy gets seated, looks at his cards, and puts out a large raise. The big blind in the 8-seat throws a fit, claiming it's totally unfair for the 10-seat to have the knowledge that all the subsequent players are folding and use that to decide to raise. He's right. 10-seat claims it ain't his fault. He's right, too--he wasn't even in his seat as all this is happening so it's not like he had the opportunity to stop the action. The floor got called but before he could actually make a ruling the raiser in the 10-seat with obvious hard feelings gave in and agreed to just chop it with the BB and take back their respective bets. Button didn't move and it was redealt. Which in my book was unfair to the rest of the table as well as to the raiser...the big blind was allowed a do-over when he was obviously holding rags. But I don't see any way to "fix" this such that it isn't unfair to someone. Floor said, had they allowed him to rule, that he woulda let the raise stand.