Mantis Already Praying

Hit Squad member Karl 'Mantis' Mahrenholz has suffered a decent hit already. He had raised preflop with the big blind defending.

Both players checked the {A-Spades}

board down to the river where Mahrenholz bet 500. Suddenly the big blind now check-raised to 2,000 and after some thought Mahrenholz made the call, only to be shown {A-?}

for a boat.

The British player sighed and mucked his hand, he's down below half his starting stack already.