De La Guardia Supertanker
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Sometimes a decision is a genuinely big one, and by and large the players here in Berlin sit quietly and patiently. In fact, we've only heard the clock called a couple of times during the whole tournament so far.
It looked like there would be on-their-backs fireworks when Kent Lundmark raised preflop to 11,000 and Jose De La Guardia re-raised (28k out of a 170k stack). Lundmark queried his opponent's stack size and then made it 100k to go (setting him in). Now began a full five-minute soul-search from De La Guardia while Lundmark stared impassively at a spot on the table.
The clock ticked towards the break, and finally De La Guardia folded.