Another Disappointed Player Heads Home

Cries of "F*ck! F*ck! Jesus Christ!" brought our attention to a table in the center of the tournament floor where a three-way all in had just gone down. As best we could reconstruct the action, one player bet 7,000 on a flop of {5-Spades}

. A second player moved all in for 6,500; a third player called. The turn came {2-Spades}

. The first player moved all in for 12,000; the third player called again. When the river fell a non-spade queen, the first player proudly turned over his pocket queens; the second player angrily threw down pocket aces, and the third player turned over {K-Spades}

. It was the player with pocket aces (of course), the one who had been eliminated, that caused a scene.

Rational, disinterested observers like ourselves noted that, although the beat seemed really horrible (it looked like a two-outer), the player with aces actually had to dodge a significant number of cards: any king, any queen, any ten, and any spade. We understand his disappointment though.

On a nearby table, Joe Hachem can't wait for the end of the day. He's been thirsty for a scotch for about a half hour now and finally decided to buy a round for his whole table.