Good Chat, Good Fold
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Paolo Compagno opened for 800, call from the chatty Romanian Tiberu-Florian Georgescu and then a three-bet to 1,800 from Garlef Konstantin Rinne a PokerStars qualifier from Germany. Compagno didn’t like it and folded but Georgescu made the call. They chatted away amiably enough, trying to get a read perhaps, as they checked it all the way down until the river card came on a final board of . Now Georgescu bet 5,000 and Rinne had 13,000 behind. “Would this be a stupid call or a stupid fold?” Rinne pressed. He couldn’t get a satisfactory answer and folded, perhaps relived to be shown the . A narrow escape?