Max Talks Loudly, Gets It Quietly.
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We were playing the last three hands of the day when Max Droge, who had been fairly talkative all day but hadn’t been involved in many pots, decided to get busy.
Droege had called Sergey Rybachenko’s button raise in the small blind pre flop. On a board of 
, Droege checked and called a bet of 20,000 from Rybachenko. The turn was the 
and when Droege checked Rybachenko checked behind. The 
came on the river and now Droege decided to bet 20,000. Rybachenko looked really confused. What could he possibly be representing? Rybachenko asked Droege to count his stack out and pondered some more. He really took his time and eventually made the call. Droege showed the cheeky 
for the turned flush. Rybachenko looked pretty disgusted and showed his 
for the rivered Broadway straight.
The next hand Droege had the button and it was folded to him. He bet 20,000 and Oleg Suntsov three-bet from the small blind to 45,000. Natalya Nikitina folded her big blind, Droege called, and the two players saw a flop of 
. First to act Suntsov led out for 47,000. Doroege paused and then reached for a stack of chips, sliding out a raise to 110,000. “All in.” said Suntsov. Before he could get the words out Droege said ”Call.” tabled 
and jumped out of his seat. Suntsov had apparently underestimated his opponent as he tabled 
. The last two cards were 
and with one hand to go Droege had doubled up.
He spoke to a PokerNews reporter at the end of the day and talked though the hands. He said he got a bit lucky with the flush but was amazed Rybachenko took so long to call the river bet, calling him “an amazing player. To me that’s a snap call” As for the last hand Droege said, “I knew if I raised him back he’d fold so I decided to just call with the aces. I’ve been waiting for that all day.” And with that he bounced off, delighted to be returning tomorrow to play Day 4.