Klein Makes the Call

Morten Klein opened to 16,000 in the cutoff seat, Olivier Busquet three-bet to 36,000 on the button, and Klein called. The flop was , and because Marcin Wydrowski and Paolo Compagno were all in on Table 1, we missed the exact action. From the looks of things, Klein check raised to around 80,000, and Busquet made the call.

The turn was the , both players checked, and the river was the . Klein checked again, and Busquet moved all in for effectively 125,000.

Klein tanked for the better part of five minutes, stacking up all of his chips, unstacking all of his chips, and then stacking them up again. Finally, he called.

Busquet flashed queen-jack before mucking, and Klein slammed onto the felt for just a pair of eights. He doubled to around 550,000, while Busquet dropped to around 190,000.