Grace Under Fire

Mads Wissing opened the pot to 1,650 in middle position, and Richard Grace three-bet to 4,200. When it folded back around to Wissing he popped it up further, making it 10,000 straight and adding, "Notice the instant min-raise there." Grace no doubt noticed, and he called the extra few thousand to see a flop.

It came down {2-Diamonds}

, and Wissing led out with another 10,000 chips. Grace made the smooth call eventually, and the {Q-Clubs}

landed on the turn. Wissing let out a noticeably heavy sigh and began to rub his face furiously. He eventually pounded the table once with his closed fist. No theatrics from Grace, he simply tapped the felt behind.

The river brought the {8-Hearts}

and another long bout of face rubbing from Wissing. He looked as if he were going to claw his skin off, and he eventually checked with the same heavy-fisted motion as before. Grace looked like he wanted to fire, but he simply said, "I have two jacks."

"You have two jacks?" asked Wissing, sounding terribly surprised. With that, he tabled {Q-Hearts}

, his pair of queens good enough to win him a nice pot.

Grace has slipped back under 90,000 after that loss. He's still healthy, but he'd sure like to have that last pot stacked in his corner as well. He took it in stride though, possibly because he was too busy trying to figure out how he could have won that hand to be frustrated with the outcome.

Tags: Mads Wissing Richard Grace

2010 EPT Copenhagen

2010 EPT Copenhagen

Grace Under Fire