Playing With the Cards Face Up

We saw more than 5,500 in the pot and no flop to be found, with Brain Rast facing what looked to be an all-in bet of 11,625 by Ben Hamnett. Rast stood to count out the wager, and cut the appropriate amount of chips from his already doubled stack.

After a minute or so of thought, Rast plunked in the excised stack turned over his . That's when Rast discovered that Hamnett, who you may remember as the winner of the 2012 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event ($818,847), still had a thousand or so chips remaining behind his water bottle.

"I put him all in then," said Rast, apparently having placed more than enough in the pot for such a raise anyway. "I didn't see the extra chips though."

With Rast's overpair already tabled, Hamnett could not have liked calling off with his , but he was pot committed at this point and his last chips went into the middle.

Flop:

Just like that, the deck delivered for Hamnett, and when the turn () and river () brought no third ten on board, Rast was forced to ship half of his stack across the table.