Antonio Lafosse has just helped himself to a decent sized put much to the frustration of Jon Turner.
Lafosse checked from the small blind with the board reading and saw Turner bet 9,500 from his seat in the big blind. Lafosse called and quickly checked when the completed the community cards. Turner pushed out a tower of chips totaling 26,500 and Lafosse called.
Turner:
Lafosse:
When Turner saw Lafosse's hand he angrily slammed his cards onto the felt.
With temperatures in the Amazon Room having plummeted to previously unseen lows, the artificial cold has many of the remaining 27 players talking.
Jon "PearlJammer" Turner has been seen blowing into his hands all day, trying his best to warm up. Maria Ho, meanwhile, was sipping on either a coffee or hot chocolate, while Nicholas Cardyn wore a dashing scarf to ward off the cold. Goran Filipovic has been heard asking passersby on the rail for gloves or mittens to no avail.
One player who does not appear to be fazed by the frigid temperatures, however, is Russian pro Ivan Demidov. Despite shivering his way to a double up yesterday, the Moscow native appears to have acclimated to the cold, as he is still sporting a short-sleeved T-shirt here today.
With the Amazon Room now being called the Antarctic Room by many players, we've compiled a few choice tweets regarding the freezer like conditions that have swept through the Rio.