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Sharon DeVault on Day 1c of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open Event #8

We passed by a table just as several players began loudly calling for the floor (or the floah, as we are in New Jersey after all).

The board read and the lay face up on the table. Apparently, the dealer did not notice Sharon DeVault's hand placed fourth street on the felt before she had a chance to act. The floor staff ruled that the card would not count, and the dealer burned and turned a second time, bringing the to the table instead.

Two players folded without a bet to them with the new card on board, saying the mucks we're "out of principle," and that's where things really went screwy. DeVault and Mark Cincotti took the on the river, and Cincotta bet into DeVault.

She then pushed a big stack forward for a raise, sloppily splashing the pot with her jumbled stack, and with Cincotta still contemplating his decision, DeVault inexplicably revealed her hand to be for the second-nut flush.

Sitting to DeVault's right, Cincotta raised an eyebrow in surprise, before holding his cards up for the table to see. With the in the hole, he had made a flush as well, and according to him "would've paid it off before I saw her's was bigger." His irrelevant flush went sailing into the muck while DeVault apologized for her frazzled play.

So, to recap, DeVault tried to spike a gutshot straight on the turn, and hit her gin card, only to see it be nullified by the dealer error. The new turn card then changed her hand to a diamond flush draw, along with Cincotta's, and the river completed both their hands. Even then, her own mistaken reveal killed the action and prevented her from doubling through.

Poker. What a game huh?