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Originally Posted by bazooka87 
1 Tournament Director Tournament Directors are to consider the best interest of the game and fairness as the top priority in the decision-making process. Unusual circumstances can on occasion dictate that decisions in the interest of fairness take priority over the technical rules. The Tournament Directors decision is final.
Yes it's a retarded ruling, but they have protected themselves and yes you have to question that if this ruling was in the "interest of fairness" but I'm sure they can argue it was.
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I dont see how they can argue it was in the interest of "fairness" to rule the hand dead. What possible angle can Jacky be on here? I doubt he is trying to save himself the 2.5k in a ~200k pot on the chance Lee has quads when he has top boat. What damage is done to Lee by Jacky turning over his hand?
It is specifically not a dead hand according to the rules. In the interest of fairness, I can see letting the opponent keep his 2.5k, but even that is a stretch imo. The action of Lee sliding all his chips forward when calling (assuming that is what actually happened) clearly indicated he intended to go allin and simply tried to angle after he saw he was drawing dead.