Linde Turns His Bluff Into a Value Bet
On the river of a board, Per Linde checked across to Martins Adeniya who fired out 18,700. Ramzi Jelassi thought long and hard before folding and it was passed back to Linde who thought for a moment before check-raising to 50,500.
Adeniya tanked for several minutes as a call represented most of his stack, eventually with several minutes gone into the break Linde said, "Clock please," before apologising to Adeniya saying, "I'm sorry but I would like a few minutes break."
"No problem," replied Adeniya.
Without about 30 seconds left, Adeniya made the call.
"You got it," sighed Linde, "One pair," turning over . Adeniya winced and slowly mucked his cards. The usually expressionless and stoic Linde looked utterly shocked, "I was bluffing!" he exclaimed.
"I knew you were bluffing," replied Martins, crippled as result. Linde is closing on the 300,000 mark.