Severino Puts on a Show
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, Severino flopped the mortal nuts holding pocket queens and passed the first action to his opponent.The trap worked, as his opponent fired out a 21,000 bet, which prompted Severino to start the show. He looked stressed, he looked nervous, and he looked like he didn't know what to do. "How much is it?" he asked the dealer. The 21,000 bet was about three-fifths of Severino's remaining stack.
"I know how you feel, man . . . I know how you feel," Tony Hachem said to Severino, who continued the Hollywood act, shaking his head, while stacking and restacking his chips. After a solid two minutes had passed, he decided to make the call.
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fell on the turn and Jose performed his grand finale, with a quick check to his opponent. He sat quietly, staring straight ahead, as his opponent grabbed a stack of chips big enough to put Severino all in, and slowly moved them to the center of the table.Before his opponent was able to complete the motion, Severino stood up out of his chair and proudly said, "I call," as he displayed his pocket queens for all to see; his opponent, who revealed a pair of sevens with a flush draw, was drawing dead.
After his Oscar-worthy performance, Severino stacked up 114,000 in chips.