The chips are flying as we near the end of level 13 in the Deepstack Turbo. The 15-minute blind levels are forcing players to take their chances sooner rather than later.
A hand that just played out offers an interesting illustration. When Arnie Maloney made a continuation bet in a heads-up pot on a flop of 
, he must have felt pretty confident. Not a lot of hands that could call a pre-flop raise connect with that kind of board so Maloney figured it would be easy enough to take down. His opponent, David Caverly, had other ideas and he put in a raise to 32,000, enough to put Maloney’s tournament life at risk. After a couple of minutes in the tank, Maloney called it off and hands were tabled. Caverly showed 
and Maloney tabled 
. Caverly had a healthy lead in the race between middle pair and two over cards, but there were still two cards to come. The turn, 
, lengthened Caverly’s lead, but the river, the 
, was enough to change all that, keeping Maloney in the tournament with a stack that is now well above the chip average.