During the break the floor-staff come over to the PokerNews desk and told us their side of the story after having watched the footage of the hand.
The floor made clear that the video surveillance did not record sound, but this what they saw.
McLean Karr had bet the river and his opponent made the call after thinking for a long time. Karr then picked up his hand, and released them face down. The dealer picked them up, and moved them to the muck. Once again, any verbal actions weren't recorded.
The other player had tabled his cards, ace-five, and the dealer scooped them up and brought them out for everyone to see, in the middle of the table. At this point she started pushing the pot over to the player in seat one, and Karr attempted to reach over the dealer's hand in an attempt to revive his cards.
This failed, and that's when the controversy started. We described the rest in an earlier post.
The floor just wanted to make clear the dealer followed the procedure on this hand.
Matt Waxman was in the big blind when we saw the player in the cutoff raise to 525. James Calderaro called from the button and the small blind folded. Waxman put in a raise three-bet to 1,700 and the initial raiser quickly folded. Calderaro almost instantly four-bet to 3,725 and the action was back on Waxman.
Waxman looked like a statue as he was thinking about what to do. After about a minute he decided to make the call, while Calderaro was smiling at him.
The flop came down and Waxman checked. Calderaro fired out 6,200 and Waxman went into the tank again. Another minute passed and he opted to call.
The turn was the and after some thinking both players checked. The river was the and Waxman checked a third time. Calderaro laughed, double-checked his cards and finally knocked on the table.
William Reynolds already has four cashes at this year's World Series of Poker, his best result coming in tenth in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $38,716. Today he's at it again, and in the second level of play he knocked someone out.
Reynolds told us he bet every street as the board ran out . The river bet was 3,600, and his opponent moved all in for 8,500. Reynolds called with and beat the set of sevens his opponent flashed.