Seiver Pots the River

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Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Ryan D'Angelo and Scott Seiver were heads up on a flop of , and D'Angelo, who we believe was the preflop raiser, led out for 30,000. Seiver thought for a bit before matching the bet on the button, and the dealer burned and turned the .

D'Angelo led out again - this time for 70,000 - and Seiver silently pointed at the bet to confirm the amount. The dealer cut it down, and the Season 9 WPT World Champion mulled the decision over for the better part of two minutes before calling.

The river was the , D'Angelo knuckled for the first time, and Seiver once again sat silently in thought. Finally, he reached into his stack with two hands and pushed forward twin stacks of gray T5,000 chips, betting 200,000.

D'Angelo started thinking aloud.

"What were you thinking so long for on the turn?" he asked Seiver, who responded with nothing but an icy stare at a single spot on the felt. "Ace-five?"

The man known to some as "g0lfa" eventually folded, and Seiver slipped his cards into the muck facedown, dragging the pot.