Schwartz Reads Weakness and Bluffs Safina
The river blanked off and the best hand was left to Safina, who held just a pair of tens. He fired a small bet into the middle, essentially turning his hand into a bluff. Daniel Negreanu was commentating and didn't like the bet from Safina, but he couldn't do anything about it from the commentating room. He claimed that Schwartz was going to read this as weakness and could raise Safina.
After Rousso folded her hand, Schwartz did just that, he raised Safina for about 120,000 more than Safina's bet. Safina went into the tank and little did he know he held the best hand over Schwartz's jack high and busted straight draw. Safina tanked for several minutes and it looked like he just might have it in him to make the call. This wouldn't be the first time Schwartz bluffed Safina and that had to be weighing on the PartyPoker qualifier's mind.
After those several minute sin the tank, Safina slid his hand into the muck and Schwartz got away with one. He stood from his chair and slammed over his two cards to show the total bluff.
"That's what I'm talking about!" he yelled out. "That's what I'm talking about!"
This was a very pivotal pot in the tournament, as Safina had been besting Schwartz in a few hands where the two clashed previously. Finally though, Schwartz was able to get one back in one of the most keys pots of this heat with a great read.