Romanello Running Out of Time
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board with the decision resting on Romanello."You have thirty seconds," announced the tournament director.
"What, when was this decided?" asked Romanello.
"I said before, you weren't listening."
"I'm calling anyway," warned his opponent, "calling for sure."
"Five seconds."
"Hold on," interrupted Romanello. "It hasn't been that long."
"Okay, sir, I'm going to start counting down from 10. When I say one, your hand will be folded."
"Oh, okay then," replied Romanello.
"Ten, nine --"
"One moment," interrupted Romanello. "You're counting very fast."
With all these interruptions, I think Romanello probably got about half an hour to make his decision in the end, which ultimately was a fold.
He could talk the hind legs off a donkey this fella, but with 47,000, time really could be running out for the Welsh rogue.