"This Is Insane! This Is F***ing Insane!"
Pot-Limit Omaha
Alexander Kostritsyn opened with a raise to 1,500 from early position, and Jared Bleznick called from the cutoff seat. On the button, Tom Schneider also called, and the dealer rolled out the 
flop. Kostritsyn led with a bet of 4,000, Bleznick called, and Schneider folded.
The turn card was the 
, and Kostritsyn kept firing away. He bet 11,000, but Bleznick didn't go anywhere and made the call.
The river was the 
, and now things got really fun. Kostritsyn first bet 26,000, to which Bleznick studied, then raised to 60,000. Kostritsyn came back with a reraised to 100,000. Bleznick shrugged his shoulders and made the call, almost as if to say, "OK, let's chop this one up."
But wait...
As soon as Bleznick called the river, Kostritsyn mucked his hand with a smile. Bleznick seemed a little shocked, but began to pull in the pot anyway. He didn't show his cards and some of the players at the table said he had to show the winning hand. Bleznick protested that he had to show, and tried to push his hand to the muck. The dealer held onto the cards and called over the floor to get a ruling. According to World Series of Poker rule, the winning hand must always be shown. The floor gave this decision to Bleznick, and he was again shocked.
At any rate, the dealer tabled his hand to reveal the 
for the nut straight... the stone cold nuts on the river. And now for the second issue.
"Well, wait a minute," said someone at the table. "He just called with the nuts."
The floor had only been able to take two steps away before being summoned back to the table. The dealer explained what happened, and the floor ruled that because Bleznick just called in position with the nuts on the river, that he would now receive a one-round penalty.
"Are you kidding me?!?!" exclaimed Bleznick. "This is insane!"
The floor explained the WSOP ruling, but Bleznick was simply in awe.
"This is f***ing insane!" he half yelled. "Every f***ing time I play a WSOP tournament I get a f***ing penalty! Every time!"
Bleznick finished pulling in the pot before stepping away from the table for an entire round. During his penalty, Bleznick has been wandering around the tournament area telling several other tables what had happened.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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296,000 | |
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80,000
-106,000
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-106,000 |