Meul It Over
The board had been fully dealt and read when we arrived. There was a little over 20,000 in the pot. It looked as though Dmitry Stelmak had checked to Christopher de Meulder on the button, who bet 6,000. Back to Stelmak, who went all in.
De Meulder sighed and asked, "How much?" 18,900 more, he was told - around half his remaining stack. He thought about it long, and hard, and then called - but mucked when Stelmak turned over for a full house. De Meulder quietly got up and walked away, presumably to go and vomit in the bathroom or some such, while Stelmak stacked up his 56,000 in chips. When de Meulder returns it will be to a stack of less than 20,000.