Lodden Thinks...And Thinks...And Folds
Team PokerStars Pro, Johnny Lodden has not had the best start to the day, having dropped around 20,000 of his starting stack of 53,500.
Having been moved to the back of the room on Table 1, Lodden opened to 2,800 from under the gun. The action folded around to Giuseppe Sammartino in the hijack seat, who paused for around twenty seconds before making a raise to 6,000. Everyone else folded so it was back on Lodden.
Lodden, hunched over the table with his rather fetching bluetooth Bose headphones firmly in place, glanced at his opponent's chip stack before making it 15,300 to play.
Sammartino was firmly focussed on Lodden and after a short pause, he made it 25,000 to play. Lodden went deep into the tank, so deep I felt like calling time on him myself and just short of five minutes later he emerged, only to muck his hand.