Mucking the Winner
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We walked up to the table to see a board of
spread out in the middle, and Alexander Selishchev had checked with a pot of about 20,000 up for grabs. His opponent, Vladamir Geshkenbein sat in the tank for several minutes. At first, it looked like he was about to move all in. But his fingers were clumsy, and he was unable to get ahold of his stacks properly. From his body language, it appeared that he actually gave up trying to go all in and decided to take the easy way out by checking behind instead. When he did, Selischev tabled 
for kings up. Geshkenbein shook his head and tossed his cards into the muck.The pot was pushed to Selischev, and just as the dealer scooped up the board with the winning hand, Geshkenbein bolted out of his chair. "Wait, there were two jacks there?"
The table confirmed, and Geshkenbein fell backwards into his chair. He claims to have folded a jack after mistakenly thinking it was two kings on board. It didn't look like an angle; Geshkenbein was clearly gutted as he sat there fingering his ~10,000 remaining chips. Just to make things better, Thierry van den Berg recounted the whole event for him. "Yes, he checked, and you grabbed the chips but then you checked. He had ace-king but there was jack-jack on the board."
And just to take it one step further, Luca Pagano, Vitaly Lunkin, and van den Berg all took turns reminding the young Russian to table his hand to avoid mistakes like that in the future. Lesson learned, we're guessing.
, Sarwer checked to the player on the other side of the table. The unknown player flicked out a bet of 5,000, and Sarwer announced a check-raise all in for 20,475. After spending some quality time in the tank, the player released his cards, and Sarwer exhaled deeply. He's back to about 33.000 now and has his sights set on Day 2.
and smacked into seat nine's aces.
back to the dealer when Mr. Seat One turned over 
for a turned set and rivered full house.
flop, when Catherine Hong bet out 2,100. Chattha made it 6,200, Hong called, and they proceeded.
turn so we missed the action, but re-focused come the 
turn, which Hong checked. Chattha bet a chunky 15,000 and Hong called.
for flopped two pair that turned into a flush on the river