150+bb Pot, First Orbit
True to yesterday's form, the players who've made it here on time have come to play right from the start. Chips are flying in all over the place, including on Table 44, the last inhabited table at the very end of the spacious tournament arena(45 waits for mystery late entrants). My first big flop of the day: . Heads up, the big blind Hans Hein had bet and found Seat 9 (we shall call him Late Pokersson) raising to 7,800. The yellow 5,000 chips took more than one orbit to get into play yesterday, but here Hein made the call (his bet had been a couple of thousand).
The turn was the . Check from Hein; Pokersson bet 9,600 and sat back calmly while Hein fixed him with a stern stare and thought for several minutes. Instead of escalating this pot past the point of no return, Hein folded.
"You can show the bluff," he suggested, quietly.
"Heh heh." said the early chip leader.