Chip Chipping Away

We join the action on the river with the board reading {Q-Diamonds}

. There's about 50,000 in the pot already, and Hale is first to act. He checks, and Meierotto opts to bet 40,000.

"He hasn't shown me a bluff yet. I can't believe this," said Hale, jokingly indignant. "He has a queen. He has the... queen of spades... and the jack of diamonds." Thinking he was beat, Hale stuck it in there anyways, calling the 40,000.

"I don't have anything," mumbled Meierotto. Hale could beat that, tabling {3-Diamonds}