We encountered a quirky hand a few minutes before the break.
When we arrived at the table Jean-Luc Desormeaux was in the process of calling Robin Desgreniers’s all-in. Both players were seated on either side of the dealer. When a player is sitting in the first or last seat of a table, it’s often hard to see the player on the other side of the dealer.
When Jean-Luc called, he had not noticed the pile of purple 500 chips among Robin’s stack. So instead of calling an approximate 25K all-in, he was in fact facing a 35+K stack.
Both men tabled their hands and it was obvious Robin had not wanted a call.
Robin Desgreniers: 
Jean-Luc Desormeaux: 
The board was dry: 
and Jean-Luc scooped the pot with his ace kicker, knocking Robin out of the tournament and pocketing a $100 bounty in the process.
As he was putting the chips into his stack he said: “I swear that had I seen that purple stack, I would not have called. I was in for only 5,000 and found it extremely hard to call what I thought was about 23,000!” Players at the table agreed that being “purple-blind” turned out to be a good thing for Jean-Luc.
