01-29-2009 14:09 UTC+8

Set Over Set is Always Ugly

[user75032]

A loud collective groan -- the first sound to break the relative silence of the tournament floor other than the crick-chirp of riffling chips -- brought us over to Table 4. Jason Gibson had moved all in on a board of {7-Diamonds}

{7-Diamonds}

{5-Spades}

{4-Diamonds}

and was quickly called by Daniel Haglund. Gibson turned over a big pair of kings, {K-Hearts}

{K-Hearts}

{K-?}

, but found himself drawing incredibly thin against Haglung's flopped set {5-Hearts}

{5-Hearts}

{5-Clubs}

. The turn was the {A-Diamonds}

{A-Diamonds}

, which helped neither player, since neither had a diamond in his hand. It was the river that sent up the groan. The river was the {K-Diamonds}

{K-Diamonds}

, giving Gibson a bigger set than Haglund.

When the stacks were counted down, the two men changed positions in the chip counts. Gibson moved up to 14,500; Haglund was down to 7,300.