08-20-2009 14:14 UTC+3

More Head Railward

Shamus

The average stack is over 60 big blinds at the moment, but that doesn't matter much to those who've become severely short on chips. Thus does one hear frequent announcements of players going all in while passing through the tables.

Fabrizio Baldassari of Monaco just made such an announcement following a flop of {J-Clubs}

{J-Clubs}

{2-Clubs}

{9-Hearts}

and was called by France's Gaetan Milvaque. Baldassari had {Q-Diamonds}

{Q-Diamonds}

{Q-Clubs}

and Milvaque {K-Spades}

{K-Spades}

{J-Spades}

. "King or jack," asked Milvaque of the dealer. The turn was the {A-Hearts}

{A-Hearts}

. Milvaque repeated his request. Then came the river -- the {K-Clubs}

{K-Clubs}

-- and Baldassari hit the rail.

We're down to 142 players now.