Wells Left Wishing
Dominic Wells opened to 3,000 from the button, and James Tomlin made the call from the small blind to go heads up to the flop.
It came , and Tomlin checked. When Wells continued out with another 5,000 chips, however, Tomlin check-raised all in for about 28,000 total. It was just about as much as Wells had left, and he would take his pause. He leaned back in his chair with his hands folded behind his head, deep in thought. His cell phone rang in his jacket pocket, breaking the silence for a minute as he scrambled to shut it off. Fifteen seconds later, it rang again, and Wells once again had to break his train of thought to dispense with the annoyance. Finally, he said, "All right, you can have it," and he open-mucked .
Tomlin obliged by showing the , complimenting Wells on a "very, very nice fold." It was indeed, and that fold has likely kept Wells from bubbling this event.