Mike Leah started the day with decent 89,000 chips and was holding reasonably steady, only chipping down a little bit through the first level played today. Just now, however, he managed a huge double-up through Jean-Pascal Savard to vault him up to around 158K in chips.
We arrived at the table after the river had been dealt – the completed board read: . Jean-Pascal opened to 23,500 and Mike thought for a few moments before calmly announcing, “all in” for his last approximately 55K.
Action was back on Jean-Pascal, and he went in the tank. While Mike sat stone-faced, barely breathing (or so it seemed), Jean-Pascal had a range of emotions appear and at one point did a double face-palm in seeming agony at the decision before him. Eventually he made the call, putting out the chips to match Mike’s all in… only to see Mike flip over for a flopped set.
Jean-Pascal simply mucked and the dealer shipped the pot to Mike.