We caught the tail end of a heads-up contest between Sherif Zacca and Said Kheir. With the community cards already out in the middle of the table, the board read , and there were about 25,000 chips in the pot. Zacca was in the small blind first to act, and he fired out a bet of 14,000. Kheir would take a few minutes to debate his options before splashing in the call.
Zacca turned up his , and Kheir could not table anything to beat the nut straight. Zacca's Broadway was the winner winner, earning him another nice little pot. With those extra chips, he has climbed over 300,000 and is now perched firmly atop the leader board.
Saba Hachem raised first in from the button, and he picked up the blinds and antes.
I know, it wouldn't normally be noteworthy except for the fact that Maan Hachem was in the big blind. Maan is Saba's father, and the son's blind thievery drew a good chuckle from the table.
Just fifty players remain in the Lebanese Poker Championship. We are 29 places from the money, and just 41 spots from the final table. The average chip stack sits at 124,200 now, more than 50 big blinds.