Calm Before the Storm

It took a while for me to find a hand worth writing about up here on the balcony area. The two tables I'm peering over played out a series of hands where there was always a fold involved. You could say that's because a very high level of poker is being played. Poker is essentially a strategy game of the mind, and the deck of cards merely a tool to aid this. So if a hand is never been shown down, the winning player is victorious without yielding his weapon.

When hand did play out to showdown is was a big one...

Jan Schwarz raised up from the cutoff and found calls from Jani Sointula and the big blind before the flop came down {9-Spades}

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Schwarz continued his aggression with a 7,000 bet, only to see it raised up to 30,000 by Sointula. The big blind got out of the way but Schwarz made a quick call.

The turn came {6-Spades}