Calia Climbing

We walked up to a flop of {7-Spades}

with three-way action brewing. Nicolo Calia checked from the blinds, and the preflop raiser continued out with a bet of 2,700. Pierre Neuville folded out of the way, while Calia made the quick call to see another card.

Fourth street brought the {Q-Diamonds}

and another check from Calia, and his opponent checked behind him this time.

That brought the river {6-Diamonds}

. Calia took the lead now, firing out 4,000 chips. His opponent hemmed and hawed and eventually called, and he can kiss those chips goodbye. Calia turned up {Q-Clubs}