Lopes Piqued
![[user46298]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
A spade is 'pique' over here (the dealers' announcements of the cards, and most of the table talk is in French, so you get an immersion in French-For-Poker-Players for a week playing this event), and a surfeit of these just gave Angelo Besnainou a medium-sized pot while spurring Bruno Lopes to get up out of his chair (very briefly) in frustration:
Preflop fourway without a raise, the flop came 
. Lopes bet straight out of the small blind 250, and Besnainou, who'd limped in preflop under the gun, made it 1,000 total. The others lost interest at this point, so the two of them saw the 
turn. Now it went check-check bringing the 
on the river. Lopes now checked again, and Besnainou quickly bet 2,500, called just as quickly but with a bit of a lemon-sucking expression of reluctance. His misgivings were proven justified, as Besnainou turned over 
out-flushing Lopes' 
.