Sala Slips But Recovers Some
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
When we walked over to his table, we saw Halysson Sala shipping over some chips to Roberto Piazza. Sala had made a straight with on a king-high board, but Piazza had made a better straight with . Piazza was all in and Sala was forced to send over almost 50,000 chips.
We caught the next hand on the turn where Sala was facing off again, this time with Fabio Colonese. The board was and there was almost 25,000 in the pot. Sala checked to Colonese who put out a bet of 11,800. Sala thought for a bit then decided to check-raise, making it 30,000 to go. Colonese thought for a bit, then folded allowing Sala to take the pot and recover some of the chips he lost.