Ami Alibay has been among the chip leaders for the past few levels but he just lost a big pot to Pierre Guenette who is sitting directly to his right. The UTG player, Wei Xu, made the opening raise to 20K and George Daoukakis flat called from UTG +1. The action folded around to Pierre who also just called. Ami raised to 55K from the BB. Wei and George folded, Pierre called and 2 players went to the flop.
Flop: 
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Pierre checked and Ami led out for 68K. Pierre thought for a bit and counted out raising chips – he made it 160K. Ami had a decision to make, but judging by the investigation of his neighbour’s remaining stack, it wasn’t between calling and folding but rather a decision between calling and re-raising to force Pierre to commit the 222K he had behind.
After a minute and a half Ami ended up calling and the turn came 
. Pierre immediately shoved and again Ami thought for a couple of minutes. He ended up folding, showing 
. Pierre tried to just show one partial card to his neighbour and not much was seen except that it was a spade.
Ami is still in pretty good shape after the hand with more than 800K in play.
