Lengthy Pot Results in Chop; Diebold Offers Sage Advice
Maher Nouira opened to 10,000 in the hijack and Tigran Harutyunyan jammed for 82,000 in the small blind. Pawel Brzeski was in the big blind and took several minutes to make a decision for his stack of approximately 20,000 with pay jumps near. Eventually, the floor warned him against stalling, and he put in his remaining chips. Nouira then took some time to make a decision.
"Why the f--- do you wait until now to think?" Ben Diebold asked Nouira. "I'm gonna call the clock on your ass if you don't hurry... you had eight minutes to think about it."
Nouira said he was "texting friends", and soon after, showed 
as he folded.
Pawel Brzeski: 
Tigran Harutyunyan: 
The board ran out 
, and the two players ended up chopping the anticlimactic pot.
"I'll give you a tip," Diebold offered Nouira some sage advice. "When he takes seven minutes with four big blinds, he's gonna go all in."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
350,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
|
340,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
90,000 | |
|
30,000 |