Will's Power

It folded around to Ryan Moriarity in the small blind, who took a look at his neighbor Will Failla's short stack and then set out a stack of gray chips for a raise, enough to put Failla all in. Failla sat back.

"Ahhh... I know you have like king-three or something," he said. Finally after about a half-minute, Failla called the raise, putting himself all in for 72,000 total.

Failla turned over , and Moriarty tabled his hand... !

"I was pretty close," cracked Failla.

The flop came , then the turn brought the as if to reward Failla for his read. The river was the , and Failla doubled to survive.

"Hey, at least I didn't snap call," Failla said afterwards as he was stacking his chips. "It was... sprinkly."

The table laughed in response. "You better spell that for the blog," suggested someone, and Failla obliged with a unique and wholly inaccurate spelling.

"Oh, and can you say I had jack-queen?" he added with a grin.