Bellagio 4/8 Premature Flop Muckage

[tacoshooter]

Just got back from a weekend in Vegas and this interesting little gem of a hand came up on my first session in the 4/8 game. Lots of floor involvement, lots of anger, tons of fun.

I'm UTG+1 and raise with AQs. Three cold callers to Tilty Angry Old Man who calls in the BB. Dealer lays out the flop, which is QQ9, rainbow. Tilty Angry Old Man fires out a bet. SB and UTG muck. I say "raise" and reach for chips. Almost at the same instant the entire table turbomucks in near unison, home-game style.

This is where it gets weird.

The dealer mucks the flop and pushes the pot to Tilty Angry Old Man who flips up a 9. I yell, "Hey! I've still got cards!" Tilty Angry Old Man begins grumbling that he has a full house and the pot is his while the dealer gets flustered and calls the floor.

Couple of members of the floor come over and survey the situation. They ask the rest of the players at the table what the flop was and the players agree that it was QQ9 rainbow. Floor has the dealer fish those out of the muck and rules that Tilty Angry Old Man and I should finish the hand out of a re-shuffled deck, and that I had to call his bet (no raise).

I check it down to keep some sembalance of the peace (plus the SB was making a big deal about how he had a boat that he showed her). Turn and river are unimportant and the old guy gets super pissed when I table my AQ. He storms off grousing about how he got screwed.

So did he? Standard floor decision? I'd never seen this happen before so I wasn't sure how to handle it other than keeping a tight grip on my cards.