Every poker room has its local legends, and one of the biggest at Playground Poker Club is Sylvain Siebert – who, unfortunately for him, will not be adding to his legend today. Sylvain has just been eliminated.
We arrived at the table with all of the community cards already dealt and Sylvain, who had started the day with 127,100 in chips, was all-in from early position for just 39,800. The board read and Joshua Frederick, sitting in seat 2, was in the tank.
Sylvain’s chips were cut out neatly before him (Joshua had asked for the count) and his face was cupped in his hands on the table in front of him…
Finally Joshua made the call… and Sylvain immediately responded, “you’re good.” Both players had to table their hands on the all-in – Sylvain had bluffed the river with and Joshua made his hero call with his Ace kicker – he was playing .