Mellanen Makes A Great Call

Over at table 8, a pot was brewing between Veli-Pekka Alakorva and his left-hand neighbor Kasper Mellanen. On the turn with the board reading , Alakorva bet 45,000 from the big blind and Mellanen called in position.

The river brought the and Alakorva shoved all in for almost 170,000. Mellanen had a decision for his remaining stack of 140,000 and went deep in the tank. Alakorva, normally the liveliest player in the room, went uncharacteristically quiet, put on his sunglasses and put his hands over his mouth. Mellanen crossed his arms, studied the board and his opponent, then called it off for his tournament life.

"Good call, good call!" Alakorva loudly said in Finnish as he turned over for the airball. A relieved Mellanen slapped onto the felt and responded with "I was quite sure you had nothing" in his mother tongue as well.