05-28-2009 10:36 UTC-12

Laak Lost in the Forrest

Shamus

We just saw a wild one over at Table #90. Phil Laak got things going with a preflop raise to 1,600 from early position. Laak got three callers: the cutoff, Samdor Demjan in the small blind, and Ted Forrest in the big blind.

The flop came {K-Hearts}

. Demjan bet 5,000, then Forrest raised to 12,000. Then Laak announced he was pushing his big stack of about 280,000 all in. The cutoff and Demjan folded, and Forrest went into the tank.

"I know I have you beat," said Forrest, somewhat incredulously. "You know it's just 12,000." Laak had no response. Finally Forrest made the call with his stack of 140,000, turning over {7-Hearts}