Controversial Double Elimination
John Hesp and 2004 Main Event Champion Greg Raymer are both seated at Amazon Orange #514, where the floor was called over to mediate a controversial huge pot.
Three players went all-in preflop, and it was Paul Cavell's 
up against 
and 
. The board showed 
, but players at the table felt that a dealer mistake had been made and the wasn't the correct turn card.
After several minutes of sorting out the situation, the floor ruled that the and another burned card be shuffled back into the deck, and the turn and river were re-dealt. Those cards came out as the 
, and Cavell's aces held up.
"Never seen anything quite like that," Hesp said.
Cavell is sitting on a 124,400 stack after scooping the big pot, which left Raymer wishing he had played his hand instead of folding.
"I folded a [mediocre] hand that would have won," Raymer said. "You'd be asking me how many chips I was sitting on and it would be 170,000."
Raymer arrived late and just sat down, as this hand was just his sixth hand of the day so far. He joked that Cavell's stack now looked like "Fofty million."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
124,400 | 124,400 |
|
64,000 | 16,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |