Maxi Stack for Minieri
Alexander Dovzhenko made an opening raise which Jose Maria de Noronha flat-called. On the button, Dario Minieri reraised. Dovzhenko folded and de Noronha flat-called again.
They saw a flop which de Noronha checked. Minieri pushed an apparently random collection of chips across the line, which on close inspection turned out to be 4,950 in value. We had time to conduct this inspection because de Noronha spent some time sitting back in his chair, wondering what to do. Eventually he folded.
"Why didn't you reraise me?" Minieri asked him in his frankly fantastic heavy Italian cadences.
"Next time I reraise all in," promised de Noronha. They both laughed. Minieri was not done with his lesson in how to play cards, though.
"You raise and I reraise and you call," ("You RISE an I RERISE an you COLL,") "You raise and I reraise and you call again. Three-bet!"
Minieri is our runaway chip leader on 140,000.