Phua Doubles with Big Slick
Level 13
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
Isaac Haxton opened for 42,000 and from the button Antonio Esfandiari raised to 93,000. Paul Phua in the small blind then moved in over the top for a total of 417,000.
Haxton went deep in the tank. The decision was for his tournament life and he took a couple of minutes before he released his hand. When he did Esfandiari sighed and said to Haxton, “I was hoping you wold save me.”
Esfandiari made the call and showed ![]()
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and Phua doubled. Haxton confiormed that he had folded the better pair but obviouxly would have lost anyway.