Hot Flushes
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Before the hand, Dag Palovic was groaning that Harrah's had got his nationality wrong and politely requesting that it be changed. "They got me down as Slovenian, but I'm Slovakian." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Yes, I'm definitely Slovakian." "Don't you like Slovenia," I inquired. "I've heard it's very nice there this time of year." "It's not that," he continued. "Slovenia is very good, but I'm from Slovakia."
Our surreal conversation was suddenly interrupted as Palovic reached for chips and put out a raise of 1,200 from under the gun. The big blind defended from, well, the big blind.
On the 
flop, the big blind check-raised 1,200 to 4,600 and Palovic snap-called leading to a 
turn. Palovic then called a bet of 7,500 before calling another bet, this time 11,000, on the 
river.
The big blind showed 
, which was good enough to take the pot and leave Palovic with 60,000.
I did suggest he try England, but he didn't embrace the idea.