Action Cools Down in the Freezeout

For quite some time, heads-up play has been slow. Both players have been playing very carefully, very few bets going in.

One of such hands that made it to showdown started characteristically, with a limp from Johan 'YoH ViraL' Guilbert on the button. He was holding J♠9♦. Antonio Galiana checked in the big blind with 9♣5♥.

The flop was 6♦6♣9♠. Both players made two pair, but neither bet. The turn was the 8♠. Galiana bet 600,000 and Guilbert called fairly quickly.

The river was the 4♦. Galiana now checked and Guilbert made one of the biggest bets we have seen recently, 2,300,000 or almost four big blinds. Galiana quickly called and saw that he was out-kicked.