Taking the Rapp
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Phil Gordon and Stefan Rapp have been tangling in what amounts to a fairly serious way, for level 1.
Phil Gordon was the opening raiser, and Rapp reraised; Gordon called and they went heads up to the 
flop.
Gordon checked in the dark but called a bet from Rapp; Gordon checked again on the 
turn and this time Rapp checked behind. The river was the 
and Gordon check-called another bet from Rapp. They turned their cards over.
Rapp: 
Gordon: 
"You checked the turn?" said Rapp incredulously.
"I was gonna check-raise you," Gordon lamented as the pot went to Rapp.
The back-and-forth between them continued, as Gordon told Rapp about a limit hand he'd once played, where he'd had his opponent so tilted that he got 27 bets in after the queen-high, rainbow flop. Gordno was holding pocket queens to his opponent's 
. The turn was a king, the river a jack, making his opponent a Broadway straight.
Such is poker.