You Don't Always Need Cards To Win?
The following scenario is one that you'll be lucky to ever see again, but thankfully common sense prevailed in the end.
We approached the table with two unknown players with all of their chips in the middle. One held pocket aces, the other pocket sevens. Then before we clicked the end of our pen into action, the dealer had mucked both sets of cards, and pushed the pot towards the player with the aces!
"Woahhhh!" came the cry from the entire table. We are kinda missing a few small things here...like a flop, turn and river?
The floor was called and the situation explained. The players were able to determine that the aces were both red and the were quickly retrieved from the top of the muck. The red and black sevens were a little harder for the players to recall the suits, and after some hunting around in the muck the were found and determined to be the player's cards.
The pot then also had to be recalculated so that the player's all-in bet amount could be determined at 5,100.
The muck was then shuffled and a board was finally spread. Justice prevailed in the end as the sent the pot to the player with the rockets and peace on Earth was restored.