Catalin Pot Eliminates Sergejs Dubovs

Catalin Pot raised to 13,000 from early position. It folded to Sergejs Dubovs in the big blind.

A lot has been said in the poker community recently about excessive tanking, and whether shot clocks should be implemented. Dubovs has this covered. On the stand next to him at the table there is a pot of tea, and next to that is a tablet. This tablet has a countdown timer set to one minute.

On more than one occasion so far today, I have seen the action fold around to Dubovs, who dutifully presses a button and the one-minute countdown timer starts. Sometimes he folds straight away, and resets the timer. Other times he spends 40 seconds on his decision. For whose benefit is this? Who knows.

So facing this bet from Pot, Dubovs pressed his timer. The clock ticked away as he played with his remaining chips. He had come into the day with 55,000 and it had withered down to just over 30,000. He eventually moved all in and Pot instantly called.

Pot showed [kckqc] and Dubovs . "Good luck sir," said Pot.

The flop came . "That's not a good flop for you," remarked Pot. The turn was even worse, as it was the . With Dubovs in real danger of being counterfeited, the river was dealt. The .