."If you check, I'm betting," Mercier told her opponent. He did check, she bet 1,100 and he called all in.
Mercier:

Opponent:

The turn and river were bricks,
and
, to send Mercier's opponent home empty-handed. Mercier herself is up to about 11,000.
and the action folded around the table to the player in the big blind, who studied the situation carefully before committing his chips, tabling a very live
.
in favor of Chen's Big Slick, and the math wiz lives to see another day.
. His opponent, the big blind, check-raised to 4,000 but quickly waved the white flag when Pescatori's response was to move all in. The big blind had fewer chips than Pescatori and clearly did not want to risk them in this spot.
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