With the blinds at 1,000/2,000, the action opened under the gun by Patrick Eskandar who bumped it up to 5,300. Michael Foley was next to act, and he spent time thinking it through and a few seconds later he called. It then folded around to George Petten in the big blind who three-bet to 14,000. Back to Eskandar, he tanked a bit before finally four-betting to 43,000. It was now on Foley to act, he asked Eskandar if he only had one stack of red 5,000 value chips and as he looked over at his stack, he finally made the call. That put a decision onto Petten and he went into the tank for almost two full minutes, until ultimately he folded his hand and the two players went heads up to the flop.

The flop came and Eskandar moved all in. Foley snap called and the hands were tabled:

Eskandar:
Foley:

The table and the two players in the hand held their breath as Foly had all kinds of outs and he had the while Eskandar had no spade. The dealer proceeded to turn the , followed by the on the river and Eskandar’s pocket rockets held against Foley’s kings. Once the stacks were counted, Eskandar had 155,000 which covered Foley by just over 10,000 chips. Foley was unfortunately sent to the rail just shy of making Day 2. A cooler for sure.

As Eskandar was pulling in the pot, Petten let it be known that he had folded pocket jacks. Although we never saw his hand, after the two minute tank before folding, it seemed to make reasonable sense.