Jones Takes On Beyne

Matthew Pitt

The UK's Rhys Jones has shown that the glare of the cameras over on the secondary feature table do not faze him one iota if a recent battle with Vladimir Geshkenbein is anything to go by.

It was Geshkenbein, known to the masses simply as "Beyne," who opened the betting by raising first in from the hijack and Jones was next to act. He three-bet to 6,400 which forced the button and blinds out of the hand but Geshkenbein is not someone who reacts well to being pushed around and he four-bet to 15,000.

Jones went into the tank for around a minute before taking back his original raise and replacing it with chips worth 26,200. As soon as he had done this Beyne smiled to himself then craned his neck to get a full view of Jones' stack. He sat back in his chair again and adopted a pose not too dissimilar to the famous Auguste Rodin "The Thinker" sculpture before smiling to himself again. One last glance at Jones' stack was needed before he sent his cards back to the dealer.