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Chessa Before the Aces
One disadvantage of being three storeys removed from the action, apart from the regular stair-climbing exercises, is that you sometimes find yourself going back to the casino fifteen minutes after the restart was due only to find the restart is still six minutes away.
Anyway, Level 6 is now well underway. We saw one of the early pacemakers, Scotland's Tony Chessa, involved in some chip action. Once more, several players limped to see a flop of . An early player with a 5k stack raised to 2k, posing the question of what he limped in with. Tony Chessa decided to test his resolve with a re-raise of 5k, which had the short stack covered should he wish to call. After some delay, short-stack made the decision he knew he always would. Call with . Never in doubt!
Chessa turned over for the straight-flush draw.
The turn card was and the river, at the command of the aces man, was black in colour, . Chessa lost maybe a fifth of his stack but no lasting damage.