Lieu Doubles Through Donev
It transpires that she limped under the gun with pocket fours, and there was a raise behind her from the gent in seat seven. In seat eight, Ivo Donev called the raise, and it folded back around to Lieu, who pushed for 10,200. The raiser folded, but Donev called with .
The board came down a Lieu-favouring and Lieu doubled to 24,000, in what Mr. Donev seems to have called a "banana play". Neither we nor Ms. Lieu would like to hazard a guess at what a banana play might be.
Most interestingly, as Ms. Lieu was telling us this story, Mr. Donev was telling his version to members of the German press across the table. If there are any multi-linguists out there, it might be interesting to contrast and compare...