$360 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 20: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 306 of 5,018

The player under the gun opened to 20,000, and Zoltan Czinkota three-bet to 40,000 next to act. Action froze on Jason Young for maybe 30 seconds or so, but after a short exchange with Czinkota, he eventually folded. The initial raiser called the remainder to see the flop.

It came , and both players checked. The raiser check-called a small bet of 10,000 on the turn, and both players checked through the river. Czinkota showed , winning the pot with a pair of nines.

“I showed you so much respect right there,” Young said after the hand.

“You had better than pocket nines?” Czinkota asked. Young nodded. “You folded a bigger pair than nines?” Czinkota was in apparent disbelief. “You never had a bigger pair than nines! You had a bigger pair than nines?”

Young saw us jotting down notes, and he lamented his newfound patience. “I’m such a nit now,” he sighed. “Remember when I used to just be in there? If I made a bad decision — so what? — I’d go to the bar. Now I just fold pairs preflop and stuff.”

Zoltan Czinkota – 475,000 (48 bb)