We Have All the Tamm in the World

Sometimes it is a blogger's dearest wish that someone would equip a particular table with a fast-forward button. Such a thing has not yet been invented, though, and so there is nothing for it but to stand patiently by the table while endless difficult decisions are made with the absolute maximum of delay.

There were four players in the hand when we arrived to see a {5-Diamonds}

flop. The gentleman in the small blind had bet out 600 and Niels Jensen had called. Jorn Walthaus, however, had raised to 2,100. Erik Tamm on the button flat-called, the small blind passed, and Jensen called. Three players to the turn.

Turn: {6-Hearts}

Jensen and Walthaus checked, very slowly, to Tamm. Tablemate Freddy Deeb yawned while Tamm decided what to do. Eventually he bet 4,400, and following a period of expressionless tankage from Jensen and a similar period of squinting at the board from Walthaus, both players called. Three players to the river.

River: {3-Spades}

Again, Jensen and Walthaus checked. Tamm took his sweet time deciding what to do, while the other players at the table stared at the felt as if into the void. Finally he bet 8,500. Jensen insta-folded, the first time in the hand that anything insta had happened at all. Walthaus squinted for another minute or two, and eventually also made the fold.

This all took around 15 minutes to complete, but Erik Tamm picked himself up a very tasty pot at the end of it.

Tags: Jorn Walthaus

2010 EPT Copenhagen

2010 EPT Copenhagen

We Have All the Tamm in the World