Barbieri turned up but Arvanetes had paired up on the flop with his and doubled up to 40,000.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 26 - $1,500 Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info
Barbieri turned up but Arvanetes had paired up on the flop with his and doubled up to 40,000.
The flop was . Arvanetes bet and Barbieri called. The turn was the and Arvanetes check-raised Barbieri's turn bet. Barbieri considered a moment, then made the call. The river was the . Arvanetes bet again and after a bit of a think, Barbieri called.
Arvanetes showed only to have Barbieri turn over , his kicker playing to take down the pot.
"Nice slowroll," said Arvanetes as he shuffled his four remaining 5,000-denomination chips.
"Slowroll?" replied Barbieri in disbelief.
"You were actually thinking of folding that hand?" queried Arvanetes, who was left with only 20,000 in chips after the hand.
Tam quickly turned over for the flopped straight, and Barbieri mucked. Tam is up to about 550,000 now -- second place at the moment -- while Barbieri still holds the lead with just over a million.
"Can we change games?" Arvanetes later cracked. "Let's change to PLO right now!"
Kulicki
Tam
The board ran out , Tam's aces holding up to send Kulicki home in sixth place.
Al Barbieri -- 1.17 million
Glenn Engelbert -- 465,000
Tomas Alenius -- 410,000
Jason Tam -- 360,000
Demetrios Arvanetes -- 280,000
Dominik Kulicki -- 220,000
Level: 23
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
"Play tight, OK Jimmy?" said Antonius to laughter around the table as he scooted out the door.