Minieri's Back in the Game

Dario Minieri has fully recovered from his earlier knocks down to 13,000 or so, and can now apparently afford to lose the odd pot.

We caught up with him betting out 1,000 on the river of an {A-Spades}

board, only for his opponent to raise to 2,600. Minieri disappeared into the tank.

"Pocket fives?" he enquired after a while. "Maybe," was the noncommittal response from his opponent. Back into the tank.

Eventually Minieri called time on himself, and not long after, sighed and tossed the call over the line.

His opponent flipped {5-Diamonds}