Leonard's Hand Mucked, Gets it Back, Busts

We weren't witness ourselves, but our photographer told us about the start of an interesting hand. Jesse Sylvia opened under the gun for 6,000 and Ivan Soshnikov three-bet the button to 8,700. Small blind Ludovic Geilich made a cold four-bet to 17,800. Big blind Patrick Leonard's cards were then mucked by the dealer by accident.

Floor Kate Badurek came over, took Leonard aside and asked him what his cards were. He told her the exact cards, and she retrieved them out of the muck exactly where Leonard had said they would be.

With his cards back in his possession, Leonard now shoved all in for 98,000 to make the interesting hand even more bizarre. Soshnikov folded his button and Geilich went into the tank.

This is where we picked up the action and witnessed the two chatting a bit. We heard Leonard at one point say "You gotta gamble." Geilich wasn't convinced just yet and needed some more time. A player at the table called the clock and once more floor Badurek got involved. She started the one-minute countdown and at half way through, Geilich made the call.

Ludovic Geilich:
Patrick Leonard:

The flop came about as good as they could for Geilich with . After the on the turn Geilich didn't have to worry anymore, the on the river was there just to make things official.