Dimondidenko and Donkeykong9 were playing at a micro-stake table when they decided to go all-in preflop. Dimondidenko won the pot worth $5.36 after presenting a flush, King high.
That’s all good, but what was surprising in this hand, though, was that Donkeykong9 had an Ace high flush.
Dimondidenko went all-in with 
K 
K, while Donkeykong9 was holding A 
Q. The community cards ran 
4 4 8 6 9.
Donkeykong9 won with a flush, Ace high.
…At least according to the rules of poker, as the Cake Poker software hiccup gave Dimondidenko the pot winnings.
Discussion of the topic had barely started on the 2+2 forum when Cake Poker Cardroom Manager Lee Jones reacted by posting this comment:
"Hi folks -
Unfortunately, at the moment, this appears to be real. What's bizarre is how it happened this one time out of the tens of millions of hands we've dealt. Needless to say, our software people have dropped everything else to track this down. I'll update you as soon as we understand what happened.
Best regards,
Lee Jones"
In the end, Donkeykong9 will not be crying about this loss too long, as for Cake Poker will provide the following compensation:
"If you were the true winner of the pot and it wasn't pushed to you, we'll send you double the size of the pot plus the $500," - as later stated by Jones.
These occurences of malfunctions are very rare, but not unheard of. In a similar incident last year, Unibet had the same problem with their software, when the wrong player (happening to be Phil Helmuth) received the pot.
Whoops!
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