Treated Like Royalty
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It started when a player in middle position opened with a raise to 300. Action folded to Jean-Robert Bellande on the button, and he re-raised it to 1,000 even. The big blind, Thomas Gebhardt, as well as the original raiser called.
The flop came out
. All three players checked, with Bellande muttering "There is no way I'm betting that flop." Piggybacking on an earlier hand, someone asked told him that king-queen was probably good right now. "King-queen is good now, but I prefer 
," replied Bellande, with his unintentional foreshadowing.The turn came the
. Gebhardt put out a small bet, and both opponents folded. Bellande open mucked 
and said, "What, are you going to get a massage?" Gebhart answered, "Yep!" tabling the aforementioned for the royal flush!The lucky player was awarded not only the pile of chips in the middle of the table, but also a $100 massage certificate. Give credit where credit is due though; the dealer who dealt the hand will get $50 worth of massage for himself as well -- something to break up those long days in the center chair.