Dealer mucks winning hand but shoves him the pot anyway

[Small Fry]

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soulvamp - as the others are pointing out, you are wrong.
Once the cards are tabled it is up to everyone to correct obvious dealer mistakes should they see one.

The A5 guy had no right to the pot and no justification to be upset at anyone for correcting the dealer.
You seem to play live often enough that I would think you should already know that.

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What am I wrong about, Bob? I didn't take a stand on this, just posed the scenario.

If I'm A5 guy (which I wasn't), I'm muttering to myself about the table cops, who generally do annoy me. But I'm not saying anything and am not going to disagree with the result.

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What are you muttering about? This isn't an issue where some nit, not even involved in the hand, is protesting a slightly possible string bet that has no impact on him whatsoever.

This is a situation where it is every players responsibility to ensure fairness is upheld. The hand was tabled, several players, including the dealer saw and knew what it was. Once the correct hand values where determined the rightful winner received the pot.

If anyone routinely plays live and allows something like this to happen without speaking up then I have little hope for the continued popularity of poker.

[Doc T River]

Agreed that everyone has an obligation to speak up if they see an error. How many people can say that if an error was done to them, they wouldn't want someone to speak up?