Deeb Doing Work

Did you notice that foreshadowing earlier?

A player in early position raised to 250 to open the action, and two players called on down the line. Action came to Shaun Deeb on the button, and he three-bet it up to 1,225. He found just one caller in the form of Dmitry Stelmak on his immediate right.

Heads up then, the flop came out {2-Clubs}

, and Stelmak checked. Deeb stacked out 2,125 chips and fired them into the pot in the direction of his opponent. After some consideration, Stelmak grabbed one chip of each color and made a rainbow check-raise to 6,625. Deeb shrugged his shoulders and put in the call.

The turn card brought the {9-Clubs}

and a bet of 8,500 from Stelmak. Deeb said something in the direction of Stelmak, but the Russian had his earphones in. "Huh??" he asked. "Nothing, nothing," said Deeb, going back to his deep thinking. After a minute or two, he splashed in the calling chips.

The last card off was the {A-Diamonds}

. Stelmak put together 8,000 chips and almost made that bet before adding one more yellow chip and making it 13,000 to skate. Deeb had 11,300 chips left in his stack, and after another two or three minutes, he said, "Okay," and plunked them down in the middle.

Stelmak sheepishly tabled {5-Diamonds}