Ree Guh Joo limped in from early position, then called a raise to 1,200. He and his opponent took the flop heads up. Joo checked it over to the preflop raiser, who bet 1,500. Joo made the call. His opponent got gun shy when a hit the turn; he checked behind after Joo checked. It was "second verse, same as the first" on the river . Joo showed for a pair of eights, but it was no good against his opponent's .
Joo lost 2,700 chips on the hand, dropping him to 15,400.