Copy Cat
Mestre looked tortured, as if somebody were plucking individual hairs from his eyebrow. Although a wrong decision here could result in a final table bubble, Mestre took a deep breath and pushed all in. Once Bonavena had side-stepped out of the way, Konstantinos called the extra 98,000.
Incredibly, and much to the delight of a parched press room, both players had the same hand, and what's more, they shared the same suits with versus .
The board teased a backdoor flush, but no such event occurred and the pot was chopped up, the only profit made being from the blinds and the flat-call from Bonavena. Oh, and Mestre did reach the showdown without suffering a triple bypass.