Stacked Deck

Kevin Stani opened with a raise to 70,000, and in the small blind, Arnaud Mattern reraised to 255,000. Then the big blind, Konstantin Bilyauer, put his enormous stack to use, cold four-betting to 630,000. That mean that Stani really had to make a decision for his whole stack, and he agonized over it. He took his glasses off, staring at the huge bet. After a few minutes, he folded. That left the decision to Arnaud. "You show if I fold?" he asked Bilyauer.

Mattern mucked his pocket jacks face up, and Bilyauer tabled {a-Diamonds} {k-Diamonds} . Stani looked ill. "I folded the best hand," he said. If Stani had queens like he claimed, Bilyauer likely saved Mattern some money.