[Slim7]

I would agree with everyone in that it is YOUR game... you should decide. With that being said I think the first case is straight forward, the cards play, it doesn't matter that he mis-read his hand..he still has the winner.

In the 2nd case, the original fold also wins (IMO) due to the fact that his cards were clearly distinguishable from the muck or remaining cards. This happened in a WPT event at Foxwoods last year where J.C. Tran was knocked out of the tourney when his opponent threw his cards in (both all in after flop) when he saw the Tran had flopped trips. The board ended up giving the opponent a runner runner straight and they actually retreived his hand from the muck and it was declared the winner!!!! There was a bunch of controversy around it, but the ruling was that there was no more possible action left in the hand and his cards were clearly distinguishable in the muck, so they played!!!! The video was on card player when it happened. Crazy stuff... so I would say that your example is much less agregious (sp?) and easier to say he still wins. That's my thoughts for what its worth.