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We were seven handed and blinds were 400,000/800,000 with a 100,000 ante. I picked up in the small blind and, even with Michael Mizrachi on the button, it folded around to me. I decided to limp in. I had about 15 big blinds, and Filippo Candio was in the big blind with a big stack – about 35 million. I thought that with the money jumps being so big, and my play being tight, he’d surely raise it. Unfortunately, he didn’t, so we took a flop of .

I flopped top set. Normally I would bet here, but I thought Candio was going to try to push me off my hand, so I checked to him. He...