Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes You Win and Lose
. As Black's opponent was contemplating his call, he held his cards before him in a fashion that the player to his left could see what he was holding. Black objected that his opponent's hand was now dead since another player had seen his cards. Others at the table suggested otherwise, and Tony Cousineau even challenged Black to a $500 side bet that the floor would not rule his opponent's hand to be dead. The floor was called over, and indeed, since the opponent's neighbor was no longer in the hand, the ruling was that his hand was not dead.
"Ship it!" said Cousineau. The player then folded, showing everyone else that he held A-K. Black had J-8 on the hand for the double belly-buster.
After that hand, Black is up to 13,000 chips, and down five hundy.