Double for Behbehani, Shchemelev Busts to Cheong

And to answer the previous rhetorical question – not all that crazy, though there were a couple of interesting hands, the first of which involved John Juanda and Salman Behbehani.

We came running when we heard Juanda’s cry of ‘Nooooo!’ and arrived in time to see both players on their feet and their hole cards face up on the felt in front of them with the community cards reading and the two players hole cards as follows:

John Juanda:
Salman Behbehani:

We are not sure when all the chips went in, but Behbehani had spiked a set and according to him all the chips went in on the flop and the stacks were being counted down as we arrived, with Juanda having Behbehani covered.

The US player’s all-in was for 26,900 in total so Behbehani doubled to 55,000 while Juanda took the hit stoically and dropped to 41,000.

The next big pot was a three-way one and we caught the action on a monochrome flop of just as Russia’s Vladimir Shchemelev, sitting in the small blind, moved all-in for his last 20,000.

Both opponents in the hand – Richard Yong (big blind) and Cheok Ieng Cheong (button) made the call but then proceeded to check the rest of the hand down with the turn and river completing the hand.

Shchemelev turned over for the missed nut flush draw and bottom pair, Yong mucked his hand and dropped down to 53,000 and Cheong turned over for the best hand and climbed to 80,000 while Shchemelev headed for the rail.