Four of a Kind for the One of a Kind

I'd been lurking around Devilfish's table for a while before he sparked into life, but I suppose flopping quads tends to have that effect. On a board of {3-Spades}

, bracelet winner Jesper Hougaard led out for 700 and Devilfish made a swift call. Both players checked the {K-Hearts}

turn before Hougaard's bet of 3,250 on the {7-Diamonds}

was raised to an even 10,000.

Perplexed and tortured by the pending decision, Hougaard set up tent in the think tank and began thinking out loud, in much the same fashion as Daniel Negreanu. "There's two hands you can have, jacks full or kings full," he deduced. "I know you don't have a king."

"If you call, I'll show the stone cold nuts, if you fold, I'll show ya the bluff," came the sharp tongue of the Brit.

"Normally I'd fold this pretty quickly," continued Hougaard, "but I remember a big river bluff you put on me at the Word Series."

With the dealer ignoring James Keys' pleas for a clock, much to Keys' frustration and my onlooking bemusement, Hougaard claimed he "just wanted to make the right decision" and made the call.

Sadly for the Dane, on this occasion it was the wrong decision, as the Devilfish turned over a perhaps overlooked holding in {3-Clubs}

to take the pot. As Hougaard shook his head, a smug Devilfish snapped up the pot and, with a railing audience witnessing his success, is now as happy as Hellmuth in a house of mirrors.