Flopless Pots
Level 22
: 10,000/20,000, 2,000 ante
Quite a few acts of aggression preflop have built certain players' stacks recently, notably those of Richard Toth and Peter Skripka. Skripka took 45k (plus blinds and antes) with a preflop three-bet of Nikolay Losev to 130k, while Toth four-bet Jean Souleiman preflop to win an even bigger pot without the hint of a face-up card. The betting in that hand: Toth raised to 45k, Souleiman made it 90k, Toth raised to 185k and that was the end of it.
Each decision, however, is counted in the minutes rather than seconds, and there's plenty of thinking going on, flops or no flops.