Almeida Recovers a Little

Michal Karbowski raised to 21,000 from the cutoff and everyone folded. He picked up the blinds and antes.

Next hand he raised again from the hijack, but this time Pierre Almeida reraised to 53,000 from the cutoff. The blinds both folded and the action moved back on to Karbowski. He thought about it for a moment before silently pushing the call across the line.

They saw a :::4s :::2h :::4c flop which Karbowski checked. Almeida very slowly counted out a 62,000 bet. Karbowski very slowly called and they saw a turn.

The turn was the :::8s and Karbowski checked once more. With glacial speed, Almeida counted out a bet of 120,000 and pushed it over the line. What seemed like an age later, Karbowski folded, dropping to 550,000 or so in the process. Former chip leader Almeida is now back up to perhaps 850,000.