Dealer Error Almost Results in Elimination
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and one with 
. Neither player improved on a board of 
, and the pot was awarded to the player with ace-jack. The only problem is that it should have been a split pot. The player with (who would have been eliminated on the hand) finally realized the error after the hands and board cards had all been mucked and the shuffle had been completed for the next hand.A floor was summoned to the table, who listened to the action and ruled that the pot should have been chopped. The winning player was required to disgorge half of his winnings from that pot after the dealer was able to reconstruct the action.
Dealer errors are unavoidable in poker, especially when the dealers have been working as hard as they have here in Cebu and for as long hours as they have been in Cebu. In the end there were no hard feelings. The pot was properly split as it should heen ad play continued.