Hand #259 - Buchman Takes Over Chip Lead | 2009 WSOP Main Event - The Final Table

Darvin Moon has the button. It's 4:08am. Antoine Saout raises to 1.925 million. Action passes to Eric Buchman, who tanks for more than a minute before calling from the small blind. Joe Cada releases his hand in the big blind.

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is our flop. Buchman checks to Saout, who bets 2.375 million. After a minute Buchman puts in a small check-raise to 5.0 million. Saout hasn't shown a propensity to make quick decisions at all today, and with the clock now reading almost 4:15am his decisions are coming even more slowly. He does finally put in a raise to 11.225 million.

It's like a game of tennis played by 80-year-old snails. The ball is arcing, achingly slowly, back into Buchman's court and he's inching towards it. After about two minutes he puts together several stack of chips. He punches the ball back to Saout, the price of poker now a total of 21.225 million chips. It's 10.0 million back to Saout.

We're suprised someone didn't have to nudge Saout awake, given how long this hand has already taken. There's certainly no noise coming from the theater as everyone wonders what Saout is going to do. Shove? Fold? Those seem to be the only options.

It's 4:20am when Saout finally folds. A twelve-minute hand is won by Buchman, taking about 13.0 million chips out of Saout's stack.

Buchman - 56.1 million
Saout - 39.6 million

Tags: Antoine Saout Eric Buchman