Hand Reconstructed; Ramirez Eliminated
No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw
Tournament staff has returned to the floor with a ruling regarding the Senovio Ramirez elimination. Floor staff reviewed security tapes and saw that Ramirez did indeed receive the same card back after the draw - the 
. Bill Chen had already added Ramirez's chips to his stack and the deck had been shuffled. Therefore, tournament staff ruled that the hand must be reconstructed and Ramirez would receive the top card off of a newly shuffled deck.
While the cards were being recalled, players from every other table surrounded the table to see the climactic end to this situation. Players, however, were having trouble remembering the suits and cards to reconstruct the hand.
"Bill, you can't remember your own hand?" asked Marco Johnson.
"No! I don't remember my fourth and fifth card! I'm sorry!" quipped back a somewhat frazzled Chen.
Eventually, the cards were recalled and each player's original hands were picked out and placed on the felt.
Chen: 
Ramirez: 
Despite shouts from some players that their discarded cards were now in the deck, the ruling stood. The deck was shuffled with the left out. Ramirez then received the top card from the deck.
"He's going to win now," said Chen before the card was flipped.
The dealer dealt the card without sweat. It was the 
, pairing Ramirez and eliminating him from play.
"He lost," said Robert Mizrachi, deadpan.
The surrounding field returned to their tables and play resumed as normal. Just 21 players remain in the field.
Chen later tweeted about the incident:
