Poker Is Played With 52 Cards....Right?
We just heard an uproar from Table #261 as they demanded a count of the deck they had been playing with. Apparently, after 40 minutes of play with the same deck and dealer, a new dealer pushed and immediately felt the deck being short some cards. Then, one of the players at the table demanded a count of the deck and it was in fact eight cards short. One of the players at the table said jokingly, "Yeah, I mean I figured something was wrong when no one was hitting any flops at all."
The player who noticed the deck said, "When she seemed like something was wrong with the deck, I told her 'You better count those cards before you deal them out', and sure enough I was right. The floor just ran away with the setup and gave us a new one, but it's kind of ridiculous you know?"
Another player at the table asked the media members surrounding the table, "What do you think we should get in compensation?" Everyone seemed to agree an apology was in order to which she said, "Not on my watch, we better get something!" The table echoed her sentiments.
Players at the table next to them including 2006 Main Event Champ Jamie Gold, and Ray Henson were also curious as to what was going on, especially whether the cards had been found. Henson said, "I'm pretty sure I could feel a deck and know if it was short some cards, especially if it was that many." Gold then chimed in, "They can't just let this go, they should be searching every player at that table to make sure they weren't taking cards out of the deck the whole time."
The table is now playing with a new deck, and you better bet they are sure they have all 52 this time. If we hear anything else as to what happened to those missing eight cards or where the mystery setup has run off to, we'll let you know.
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, but the river slammed down the 
, giving Mizrachi his three outer and allowing him to live on for another hand. Mizrachi is still in the danger zone, floating just over 14,000.
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for fives full of eights, and Sexton nodded silently, acknowledging he was beat. He slid his cards face down to the dealer, and looked back at his stack which has slid a bit as well. He's down to about 35,000.
, David "Devilfish" Ulliott bet 5,000 from middle position only to have the player on the button make it 25,000 to go. Ulliott only had 17,200 total, and decided to call off. Unfortunately for him, it proved to be an unwise decision as the button turned over 
for a set.
, and Kroon quickly tossed out 3,600. His opponent again called.
for a pair of tens. His opponent mucked, and the P0ker H0 picked up the pot.
fell on the river, completing the flush draw and pairing the board. Flowers' opponent checked and Flowers counted out a bet of 10,600. Rather quickly, Flowers' opponent tossed out a raised, making it 30,000 to go. Flowers went into the tank and began talking to himself about the hand. Eventually he mucked his cards face up, showing 