Even Cowboys Get the Blues

After an early-positon player raised to 600, Marco Cariboni and another player called before Leo Boxell raised it up to 2,100. The initial raiser then made it 5,800 to go and Cariboni and the other called got out of the way. Boxell, however, now moved all in for 28,000 and sent his opponent into the tank.

"Kings, huh?" Boxell said. "You've got kings, right?"

The other player said, "Does that mean you've got aces?" Boxell declined to give specifics and eventually the other player mucked. And that's when Boxell showed {A-Spades}

to verify that, yup, he had 'em.

The player to Boxell's right noticed that he has a little stuffed animal by his stack and as Leo raked in the pot his neighbor said, "Is that a rat?"

"It's a wombat," Boxell said.

"I need a wombat," the envious player said, as Lee stacked his 38,500 in chips.

2008 World Series of Poker

2008 World Series of Poker

Even Cowboys Get the Blues