The poker player in all of us will cringe, as we recount this hand we witnessed only a few hands before the end of Day 1C in the Closer tournament.
When we arrived at the table, the action was preflop, and Timothy Deering was facing Robert Cohen’s 103,500 all-in. Timothy was obviously having a rough time making up his mind. He was standing up, ruffling his hair and visibly torn between a monster fold or a call that went against his instincts. Deering later said that he was sure Cohen was holding aces.
In the end, Thimothy could not bring himself to fold and announced: “Call!”, still standing.
Robert Cohen immediately tabled his hand: 
Relief washed of Deering who tabled cowboys: 
The dealer announced that there would be no more action and proceeded to bring out the flop: 
Deering starting sweating again, the flop had just added all the jacks to Cohen’s outs.
Then the turn came: 
Deering looked to the ceiling knowing that those chips were almost his now, he covered Cohen, but not by much.
And, of course, the river Barry Greenstein wrote a book about: 
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Timothy Deering’s exasperated sigh was heard by all… and every poker player in the room recognized it for what it was, incredulity mixed with defeat. So now Timothy Deering is working with vapours to try and bag some chips for Day 2 as we only have a few hands left.
