Thomas Hall is distinguishing himself with his play today, and his recent hero call is just the most recent example of this. We arrived at the table with the river already dealt – the board read 
and Said El-Yousfi had made a 1.5M bet from early position. Action moved to Tom.
It took him some time to make the calculations he needed to make – he used up his initial 30 seconds plus 3 time chips to make the decision – but all the while his therapeutic massage continued and he kept on slowly shuffling a small stack of blue T25,000 chips. He only stopped shuffling to count out the chips it would take to call, and then resumed shuffling…
Before too long, though he stabbed 1.5M stack of oranges on the felt. Call.
Said: 
Tom: 
It was clearly a tough call to make on a 4-heart board, but he was absolutely right – and he stacked a nice pot.
