Flight J – Two Doubles Before Break

Flight J . Level 15 . Ante 5k . Blinds 2500.5k . Entries 56.312

On the last hand before the end of the level and a 15-minute break, Hoan Nguyen opens to 12,000 UTG+1 and Alem Girma calls in the hijack. David Respaldiza three-bet shoves for 49,000 on the button and Nguyen four-bets to 112,000.

“Oh, you raised!” realizes Girma. “You’re putting me all in!”

“Is that a call?” asks the dealer, briefly misunderstanding what Girma has said. He responds that it isn’t and folds the , saying it was a hand to crack aces with.

Neither have aces, though. Respaldiza shows and has three outs against Nguyen’s .

“I had two overs, too,” adds Girma. The runout comes and Respaldiza wins with queens up to double to 112.5k, while Hoan drops to 293.5k.

Meanwhile, Chan Pelton cracks pocket queens with queen-seven on another table and yells to an empty room on break about it being how you enjoy life and that he doesn’t give a you-know-what. Like I said – what goes up must come down. It just doesn’t mean it must stay down.