Alvarez's Hand Declared Dead
Level 21
: 6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante
Carlos Lauro Mora Alvarez has just had his hand declared dead after taking far too long to act. He was facing a bet of 143,000 from Alexandre Andermatt, a bet that essentially put Alvarez all in as he only had 220,000 behind and calling, losing and being left with just 80,000 would be disastrous.
We'd been stood waiting for something to happen but Alverez just sat there staring at the board, eventually Andrea Benellli, who was not involved in the hand, called the clock on him.
"He had 10 seconds left on my own clock," said Jannick Wrang
Luca Vivaldi came over and started the countdown and he got all the way to zero, which meant Alverez's hand was dead. Andermatt adds even more chips to his stack.