The Fall and Rise of Vos

Before I'd barely licked the buffet remains from my lips, charismatic Mark Vos had both doubled up and seen his stack decimated in the space of just two hands.

They didn't happen in that order, though, Vos first being caught in the act by Christian Fischbacher. I joined the action just as chips were being transferred with a {Q-Spades}

resting on the felt. Whichever way you look at it, it didn't look rosy for Vos, his {10-Clubs}

no match for his foe's {K-Clubs}

.

"I have the same chips as you now," commented Vos to friend Luke O'Kelly on the neighboring table. "Someone called, it went badly."

"It's okay though," he continued. "I'll have all my chips back in a couple of hands or be out. I'm not as scary anymore."

And, Vos did indeed live up to that promise, pushing all in the very next hand and being called by Viliyan Petleshkov in the big blind with {A-Clubs}