The 12-Minute Hand
When this hand began, the clock read just over 30 minutes. When it finished, the clock read 18 minutes, meaning this one hand took 12 minutes. What took so long? Well, we'll show you.
William Haydon raised from the small blind to 245,000. Joe Baldwin called from the big blind and the two took a flop of 
. Haydon fired 265,000 and Baldwin called after a little bit of a tank.
The turn card brought the 
and Haydon moved all in. Baldwin had roughly 1.4 million in chips and he was shoving in more than that to put Baldwin to the test. Baldwin went into the tank again, this time for over seven minutes! As we watched the clock tick away, Haydon sat waiting patiently and playing with his stack of three million or so chips. Eventually, Baldwin folded and Haydon was pushed the pot.
At this rate, we may see six hands this level.