Just before the break, I saw a hand between two players get to the river, when one player bet, and the other one called. The first player - let's call him Bluffy McAir - instantly pushed his cards, face down, into the middle of the table. They didn't hit the muck - player two (Snappy O'Read) waited until the dealer had touched them to the muck and then reached out to scoop in the pot. His own cards remained face down.
Bluffy McAir saw this as odd, while another player actually asked the dealer, "Aren't you meant to show your hand to win a pot?"
"Normally we do," she replied, "But not, apparently, for the World Series. I made a player show their hand to win the pot in a situation like this yesterday and got in trouble."
This does indeed seem odd considering the rule is standard in most casinos in the UK at least and I can see a less mild-mannered table giving the dealers and each other all kind of aggro should a big pot end in this manner.
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