Rockets for Doc
A player in the hijack opened to 8,500, and David Sands made it 17,500 to go on the button. Then the big blind called all in for a total of 16,600. It only took the original raiser a minute to decide to call, but it was a good three minutes before everyone at the table agreed the bets had been pulled in correctly. Finally it was all sorted out, and on to the flop: . The hijack checked, and when Sands slid out a big bet, he gave up his hand. Sands turned up . His opponent was in bad shape with . "Straighten me out," he asked hopefully. No dice, as the on the turn had him drawing dead.
With his timely aces, Doc Sands is up to 108,000.