The_Awesome;370331 wrote"threw his cards, face down on the table"
Where did they land exactly? But sure sounds like he mucked them and they are dead.
Almost in the stack of folded cards, imo, his reaction was that he didn't see his FH and thought he was beat, later he kept saying "Oh it was a mistake I wanted to show my cards" but it sounded BS to me big time.
I was just surprised that the director said if he called him to pick up the hand it would have counted since, imo, putting your cards face down on the table is clearly a fold.