Merlette Should Keep Quiet

Paul Merlette opened to 1,200,000 from cutoff and got a customer in Xingwei Chen in the big blind.

The flop came 9♥2♥A♦. After a check, Merlette continued with 1,500,000.

Action went check, check on the turn 3♥.

After another check on the river 10♥, Merlette shot out 3,000,000 sending Chen to the tank.

Chen was taking so much time that Merlette said, "Whatever you do, I'm going to call."

That seemed to trigger Chen to call. Merlette tabled Q♠10♦ for a pair of tens, then Chen showed A♠8♥ for top pair.

As Chen scooped the pot, Merlette said to no one in particular, "Maybe I should have kept quiet."