Deal Talk and Zhou Double

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Level 25 : 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante

Following the elimination of Rory Young, the four remaining players requested to look at a potential deal. They were told that the clock would not be paused so the players put their cards under their chips and didn’t act while the numbers were calculated on the adjacent table.

At certain stages there were no players at the table while the play was frozen, which was a rather bizarre scene.

The ICM numbers presented Peco Stojanovski with $180k, Josh Redhouse with $130k, Jazz Mathers with $117k and Steven Zhou with $82k, but Zhou stated that he wanted at least $100,000, so he returned to his seat at the table.

Around ten minutes had elapsed, so poker room manager Stephen Ibrahim announced that the players had five more minutes to reach a consensus or the play would be resumed and their cards would be mucked. With Zhou confirming he wasn’t interested in the deal, the players got back to action.

Jazz Mathers had already folded his cards from under the gun, but Steven Zhou moved all in for 425,000 on the button. Peco Stojanovski made the call in the small blind and opened to be in bad shape against Zhou’s .