Palovic's Ninja Skills No Match for Spijkers

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Dag Palovic was all smiles during the preflop action of his final hand of the tournament. He even stopped Boris Becker, walking by the table, and asked for a photo (Becker was happy to oblige).

"It's a good one," Palovic told Becker as he showed him the photo. It was at that moment that Palovic's 85,000-chip reraise from the small blind was re-reraised to 200,000 by big blind Gijsbertus Spijkers. Once the original raiser, Mikhail Tulchinskiy, folded, Palovic counted out the chips necessary to call. He slid them forward with a strong, "I call."

The flop was {5-Hearts}

and Palovic quickly moved all in.

"How much do you have?" Spijkers asked. Palovic made no motion or response, causing the dealer to countdown his neat stacks of five chips each. She estimated it was about 300,000. Upon hearing that, Spijkers quickly called.

Palovic showed down {10-Spades}

and was flabbergasted to see Spijkers turn over {K-Spades}

. "King-jack?" Palovic gasped. Spijkers didn't say anything, choosing instead to watch the dealer burn and turn the {Q-Diamonds}

turn and

river. He clapped his hands and pumped the air with a fist.

A stunned Palovic was led away from the table by tournament staff to collect his winnings.

Tags: Bruce Yamron Dag Palovic