Crister Hallbrook proably thought he was being crafty when he smooth-called Kentaro Araki's open-raise to 15,000. He may have been more delighted when Chris Chau re-raised all in to 72,000 and Araki tanked. Arak eventually folded what he later said were pocket nines; Hallbrook snap-called with and found himself up against Chau's !
The flop (of course) came nine-high, . The turn and river blanked out to give Chau a double-up to about 150,000 while knocking a shocked Hallbrook under 100,000.