Pieter de Korver limps, and Matthew Woodward checks. All friendly like.
Flop:
Check, check, keeping up the amicable tone.
Turn:
Woodward checks, but de Korver bets a wee 250,000. Now the friendliness stops, as Woodward raises to 675,000. A swift fold, and Woodward wins the minor confrontation.
Matthew Woodward puts in the first raise, to 450,000. Pieter de Korver puts in the second raise, to 1,300,000. He's been three-betting Woodward pretty frequently and so far, Woodward has shown no inclination to play back. He doesn't play back now either.
Matthew Woodward opens for 425,000 and Pieter de Korver quickly calls. As is his wont, de Korver checks the flop and, as is his wont, Woodward bets 450,000. De Korver makes what seems like his eleventy-billionth check-raise of heads-up play, this time to 1,200,000. Woodward thinks things through before calling.
The turn is the . De Korver puts a large stack of brown chips across the line. It's 2.5 million chips in total. Woodward calls in less than 30 seconds, making this the biggest pot of heads-up play.
The river is barely on the felt before de Korver moves all in. He has Woodward covered. Woodward quickly surrenders, and de Korver can't resist needling him.
"Bluff!" he says with a grin. "You'll see it on TV."
Woodward raises his button to 425,000 again. Pieter de Korver calls again. It's all red and small, . Changing things up a little, de Korver leads into Woodward for 400,000. Woodward calls. A potential draw-filling card, the hits the turn. De Korver fires a second time, making it 700,000 to go. Woodward calls again.
The river falls and Dana says to me, "[Woodward] looks like he's going to cry." De Korver is not shy with his bet -- it's 3.6 million to go to showdown. Woodward folds.
"Do you want to see what I had?" de Korver asks Woodward. Woodward says yes and de Korver flashes the . That's no help to Woodward's stack; he's down to 6,325,000.