Nine-minute Hand Sees Hollink Move Get Through - Just
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What a crazy end to a hand which started fairly tamely. Rob Hollink had raised preflop (as is happening more and more now that he's a big stack) to 23,000 and Kaspars Renga called all-in. Now over to Liviu Ignat in the big blind, who repopped it (61k). Hollink called instantly, and they saw a flop of 
.
Into the small but already present side pot, Ignat bet out 51,000. Hollink expressionlessly called. The turn brought the 
and another bet out from Ignat, this time 115,000.
Hollink instacalled.
The river was the 
. Now came the biggest dwell of the day, after Ignat checked Hollink immediately moved in. Ignat was covered, but still had 270,000 to play with. He sat thinking for over eight minutes before finally letting his hand go.
The large side pot went to Hollink who showed down 
. He now has over 800k.
"I've only looked at one," admitted Renga - the 
- but he had the 
with it to make the straight and stay alive.
A reliable informant closer to Ignat's side of the table let us know that he had been thinking, all that time, of calling with Ace high. Which would have won.