Hand #155 - Jeff Shulman | 2009 WSOP Main Event - The Final Table

Jeff Shulman has the button. He opens the pot for 1.5 million. Darvin Moon surrenders his small blind without much thought; Phil Ivey takes longer to consider his options in the big blind. More than a minute, in fact, before he calls.

The flop comes {3-Diamonds}

. Both players waste no time in checking. The turn looks like a blank, {2-Hearts}

. Ivey again checks, keeping his remaining 6.4 million chips behind the betting line while waiting for Shulman to act. Shulman settles on a bet of 2.0 million.

It would seem that Ivey can't call here; he has to either raise or fold. He seems genuinely stuck, tanking for more than a minute and a half before choosing the latter of his two options. He folds, preserving ten big blinds in his stack and conceding the pot to Shulman.

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