Deeb Busts Moreira in Long Controversial Hand

Andre Moreira opened to 66,000 preflop and Leigh Wiltshire made the call before Freddy Deeb made it 291,000 to go.

Now, this is where the controversy started as the dealer cut out the three-bet but told Moreira it was 191,000 not 291,000. Moreira then pushed out a bet of 380,000 and Wiltshire folded, getting out of the way.

Deeb was thinking about what to do next when the floor spotted that Moreira had made an under-raise and came over to sort out what to do next. Moreira was adamant that the dealer had told him 191,000 and his raise was a response to that. The floor was close to ruling that despite what the dealer had said, the raise was clearly visible to all players. Moreira was not happy and so the floor called Simon Trumper over to clarify what the ruling was.

During the time that Trumper spent gathering the information, Deeb was incensed when Moreira spoke in Portuguese to a compatriot (a journalist covering the action). Trumper ruled that even though the dealer had given Moreira the wrong information, the size of the raise was still clearly obvious to all players on the table.

The 380,000 Moreira had put out was less than a 50% raise on Deeb's three-bet (he would've needed to put out 414,000 to have been able to make the full minimum raise) and instead it was a call. After this 10 minutes of debating, the rest of the action followed incredibly quickly.

The flop was and Deeb simply moved all in with Moreira, perhaps slightly tilted, calling off his stack.