Saturday, August 29, 2015 6:10 PM Local Time
You Check, You Lose
The board is complete and it reads . Michael Pollack is in middle position in a heads-up pot against chip leader Tom Markides. Pollack checks. Markides bets out 15,000. Pollack goes into the tank for a minute or so before he finds a fold. The dealer starts to push the pot the way of Markides, but not before he flashes the .
"Put it in the book," Markides laughs. "You check, you lose."
The pot puts Markides well over 200,000 chips and firmly in the lead late in Flight B.
Tom Markides - 219,000