Defending Champ Has Some Work To Do

With the television cameras watching his every move, Dominik Panka raised the 2,100 opener from Raffaele Sorrentino to 4,800. The rest of the players at the table folded and Sorrentino made the call.

The flop came and both players checked. They would repeat that on the turn.

The river was the and Sorrentino, breathing heavy, a tan scarf wrapped around his neck, put out a bet of 5,100. Panka, the defending champion of this event, peered over at his foe and scratched the area above his upper lip and then pulled lightly on his lower lip. A look of resignation and his cards were in the muck as he queried Sorrentino about what he had.