Unibomber Gets Kalashnikov'd
On to the turn and picking up live action now. The dealer dropped the , and Phil Laak checked. Tony G bet 13,000, and both Georgy Kalashnikov and Laak made the calls to see the last card.
It was the , and action checked to Kalashnikov on the button. He moved all in for 28,775, drawing a sideways look from Laak. "If I call and I'm right, I'm a machine and a genius!" he said proudly. With that, he made the call for a significant chunk of his own stack, and Tony G open-mucked his . Just then, Kalashnikov's phone rang, and the dealer told him he couldn't talk on the phone during a hand.
"Wait! That could be good for me!" Laak said. "Someone call the floor!" Kalashnikov shut off his phone and tabled for the full house, and Laak would have preferred not to see that. He showed his on the way into the muck; his nut flush being second best.
That slip drops Laak down to about 13,000, though he should be able to get his hands on some double-up chips at that volatile table.