01-22-2010 14:59 UTC+1

Lacay Slipping

[user140525]

Ludovic Lacay began the day in the top 5 with over 185,000, but his stack is looking a little thinner now. He opened to 4,000 from late position, and the player to his left, Sylvain Calmelet, looked him up.

Flop: {9-Diamonds}

Lacay bet out 5,500, and Calmelet made it 15,000 with no hesitation. Ludovic peeled back his cards rather obviously ( {A-Clubs}

), covered them again, then called the raise.

Turn: {7-Clubs}

Lacay quickly checked. Verrrry slowly Calmelet counted out a bet of 22,000. Lacay made a show of his consternation, sighing, shaking his head, looking at his cards, looking at Calmelet, sighing again, playing with his chips, grimacing some more... Finally, he threw them into the muck. The sighing really began in earnest when Calmelet showed {A-Spades}