2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
96
Prize
€2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0

Shallow Du-bai's Some Time

Dave 'Dubai' Shallow, sat at the media-surrounded Table Becker, just called for a ruling on an admittedly ambiguous raise from an opponent whose English was a little shaky.

Three players (Shallow in position) had made it to the flop of {8-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} , building a pot of around 4,500 on the way. Boris Becker checked, and so did the other two.

The turn brought the {Q-Hearts}. Becker checked again, the midposition player bet 1,000, and Shallow quickly raised on the button to 3,800. Becker passed and the bettor now reached for a 5k chip and threw it in, while holding up eight fingers. This was admittedly confusing. Shallow called the floor, saying, "He raised his fingers? You can't use hand signals in a poker tournament!"

The ruling was that this was indeed the case - now the argument changed to whether 6k was a legitimate raise or not. Just as the whole thing threatened to bore the other end of the table to death, Shallow folded.

Tags: Boris BeckerDave Shallow