Act Like You've Been There Before
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At Todd Brunson's table, a player opened with a preflop raise to 1,600. The player immediately behind him reraised to 4,500; the player immediately behind that player made it 14,500. Everyone folded back to the first reraiser. He thought things over, then moved all in for roughly 35,000.
His opponent stood up and took three steps away from the table to call out to a friend. "Hey! Hey!" he shouted. "I have aces and he puts me all in." He then came back to the table and announced a call. He waited until his opponent turned over pocket kings before showing
.It was at that point that Todd Brunson started calling for a king. It didn't come. The board ran out
to eliminate the player with pocket kings.After the hand, Mr. Aces asked Brunson why he was looking for a king to hit the board.
"Because you slowrolled him," Brunson replied. "You walked away from the table. You should have a dead hand."
Tournament Director Matt Savage appeared at the table. He listened to Brunson's story and assessed a one-orbit penalty on Mr. Aces for leaving the table during the hand. The player with kings brought a friend of his own to the table, who asked Savage why the hand wasn't dead. He wanted to know what the ruling was.
"I made my ruling," said Savage. "It's not changing. The hand's over. Now you're just angling to win the pot."
Savage stacked Mr. Aces' chips while he was cooling his heels on the rail. All told, they added up to 108,000. When the players come back from the break, we'll try to get his name.