2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open

Event 8: $250,000 Guarantee Deeper Stack NLHE Re-Entry
Day: 1bc
Event Info

2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
jj
Prize
$99,144
Event Info
Buy-in
$350
Entries
1,392
Level Info
Level
39
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000

Stumblebum

Level 9 : 400/800, 75 ante
Sharon DeVault on Day 1c of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open Event #8
Sharon DeVault on Day 1c of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open Event #8

We passed by a table just as several players began loudly calling for the floor (or the floah, as we are in New Jersey after all).

The board read {k-Spades}{j-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} and the {10-Clubs} lay face up on the table. Apparently, the dealer did not notice Sharon DeVault's hand placed fourth street on the felt before she had a chance to act. The floor staff ruled that the card would not count, and the dealer burned and turned a second time, bringing the {k-Diamonds} to the table instead.

Two players folded without a bet to them with the new card on board, saying the mucks we're "out of principle," and that's where things really went screwy. DeVault and Mark Cincotti took the {10-Diamonds} on the river, and Cincotta bet into DeVault.

She then pushed a big stack forward for a raise, sloppily splashing the pot with her jumbled stack, and with Cincotta still contemplating his decision, DeVault inexplicably revealed her hand to be {Q-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} for the second-nut flush.

Sitting to DeVault's right, Cincotta raised an eyebrow in surprise, before holding his cards up for the table to see. With the {6-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds} in the hole, he had made a flush as well, and according to him "would've paid it off before I saw her's was bigger." His irrelevant flush went sailing into the muck while DeVault apologized for her frazzled play.

So, to recap, DeVault tried to spike a gutshot straight on the turn, and hit her gin card, only to see it be nullified by the dealer error. The new turn card then changed her hand to a diamond flush draw, along with Cincotta's, and the river completed both their hands. Even then, her own mistaken reveal killed the action and prevented her from doubling through.

Poker. What a game huh?

Player Chips Progress
Sharon DeVault
Sharon DeVault
54,000

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