O'Dea Lays Two Down

Level 8 has not been the most profitable for Eoghan O'Dea, the prior WSOP Main Event finalist hovering around the 20-odd thousand mark. He played a small pot vs. Patrick Serda that ended on the turn of a board when Serda fired a second bullet of 3,200 (he'd bet the flop, too when O'Dea checked to him). This time O'Dea check-folded.

A little later on, a mid-position player made it 1,800 preflop, the button and small blind O'Dea called, then the big blind moved all in for 16,900. "They all know I have a last-longer," the all-in player said, "How tight I'm playing." This may have been for the benefit of his last longer opponent who was sitting one table across and turned around at the sound of "all in." Nobody made the call - although one player (not in the hand) turned around and said, "Twenty bucks, I call."

"I would have paid you $100," was the reply, leading everyone to believe the last longer to be for considerably more than that.