Niste Heads to Break With a Double

David Salituro

Level 8 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Although the rest of the room had already emptied out on break, the players at Mihai Niste's table were still standing around as he and Michael Kilian were involved in a pot on the turn.

Kilian had bet 8,000 on a board of K?J?6?2? before Niste had moved all in for 42,100 in the hijack. Kilian, in the small blind, tanked for several minutes into the break before calling.

Niste then turned over 6?6? and Kilian went to muck his hand even with a card still to come. The dealer exposed his A?J? as Kilian was already drawing dead before the inconsequential 8? fell on the river.