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• Ian Ross

  

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  October 21, 2011 5:48:14 PM EDT

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  Must really suck when the dealer mistakingly mucks your Aces at the WSOP.

   

• Ronin1085 .

  

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  October 22, 2011 1:45:00 PM EDT

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  That happened to me once years ago at my second tourney in a casino. I was still new to live poker (outside of home games)
  
  It was a $75 buy-in and a 100 person field. I had made to the last 2 tables , with 14 players left. The top 10 got into the money.
  
  The blinds were getting rough and about to hit me in a couple hands. I was getting short stacked big time. I knew I had to shove with just about anything at that point.
  
  I look down to a Q-4 suited. of course not a great hand, but the table was tightening up so close to the bubble. I figured I'd go down in a blaze of glory and just shove, hoping I could just steal the blinds and maybe make it another rotation.
  
  I was in the same seat as that girl was at the WSOP.
  
  So I shoved, everyone folded but the blinds -- they both just called.
  
  Being all in I just leaned back in my seat, and took a sip from my drink.
  
  Dealer wasn't paying attention, and she mucked them. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed but it was too late -- they had touched the muck.
  
  I was out of the tounrment.
  
  Needless to say I always protect my cards now -- I guess I was just used to watching the pros on TV. When they get up and even walk around.
  
  
• Ian Ross

  

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  October 22, 2011 5:31:01 PM EDT

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  That sucks too! Especially when going out of a tournament! Did you see the showdown? Would you have won if the dealer hadn't mucked your cards?
• Ronin1085 .

  

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  October 22, 2011 5:40:25 PM EDT

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  After the floor manager explained the ruling, I calmly got up, the crowd watching was shocked too -- as well as the other players at the table. I didn't make a scene, it was pointless at that point.

   

   I found Lori, and just said: "I need to go." She wondered why, but we left -- on the ride home I was calm enough to tell her -- then she got mad LOL I did file a complaint a couple days later with the Michigan gaming comission. But it was fruitless. They pulled the video and reviewed it. I was just hoping to get my buy-in back.

   

  But no. Honestly I didn't want to know if I would have won, didn't even stay for the flop. In my head, I didn't want to know if I would have -- it would have made it worse. Took me about 5 years to go back to that casino. And yes, I was protecting my cards LOL

  
  This post was edited by Ronin1085 . at October 22, 2011 5:40:25 PM EDT