Veldhuis Sliding
, and there were about 15,000 chips already in the pot. Veldhuis was first to speak, and he led out with a bet of 12,000. His lone opponent made the minimum raise to 24,000, drawing a puzzled look from Veldhuis."Please don't have aces," he said as he threw in the extra bet for the call. "You know what I got man," came the reply. It was indeed aces for Veldhuis' opponent, and his
gave him the big book. Lex flashed the 
and sent his cards back to the muck. Veldhuis' stack took another hit, and he's down to 22,000 now, just about one quarter of his starting stack.