Weird Red Rock ruling

[sonofstev]

OK, so me being a total donkey, I'm playing 4-8 LHE at the Red Rock tonight. I bet and am called all the way to the river with Ah-3h and 5h-6h-7d onboard. I misread my hand and thought I had a straight. "Straight," I say. My opponent throws his cards into the muck as I table mine. There's a pause for a moment. "There's no straight there!" another player says. The opponent's cards are already in the muck and he never showed, but the opponent pulls his own cards back and flips them over. He had K-6 for a pair of sixes. There's a big argument (that I stay out of), the floor is called, and this ruling is issued:

Unlike other Vegas casinos, at the Red Rock, if the dealer can retreive the cards from the muck and is certain that those cards belong to that player, then action can be rewound. The cards were sticking out toward that player in a group of two, so it's reasonable to assume that these were his cards. However - the dealer never saw that player's hand until after the cards had been mucked, retreived and flipped over. So my opponent was awarded a pot after mucking his cards face down, and was allowed to pull his own cards back to prove his point.

Bad ruling? And no, I wasn't angle shooting, just being an idiot. If the ruling had gone my way, I likely would have made a cash deal with the guy on the side for some or all of the $80 pot.