Thomas Lefort found himself very short-stacked and went all-in from the cutoff for his last 5,725 in tournament chips. Denis Quirion didn’t think too hard about it and just flat called and it looked like both blinds were about to fold when Sylvain Siebert in the big blind thought better of it and tossed in calling chips as well.
The flop was dripping:
and both live players checked. The dealer turned over the
and again both players checked. On the river
Sylvain exclaimed that he won as the betting went check-check once again. Sylvain turned over
for two pair – which would very often rate to be good in that spot – but Thomas tabled
for a rivered straight and the triple up.