Sheils With a Tough Decision

Action was caught on the turn with the board reading 2♠9♠3♦7♦. Brandon Sheils had bet 77,000 into a pot of around 100,000 from early position and his opponent in the big blind, Gaurav Makkar, went all in for over 320,000, which was enough to cover Sheils’s remaining stack of 230,000 chips.

For a few minutes, Sheils struggled with the decision and tried to get Makkar to talk to him. He said he really needed help, but Makkar gave no reaction. Sheils apologized to the table, but after more time passed, did not seem to be closer to a decision. After a few minutes altogether, the clock was called. It ran all the way down and his hand was declared dead.

Sheils asked Makkar if he wanted to show his hand, and turned over his dead hand, KxKx. Makkar did not show, but instead asked him why he is folding kings. Sheils answered he did not know why he folded, that he might have called, he just ran out of time.

After some more probing Makkar said it was a good fold and that he had a set of deuces.