Carbo Collects the Pot When Parker Calls the Clock

Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Chipleader Parker Talbot and Gerard Carbo had escalated a blind-on-blind battle to the point that there were 60,000 chips in the pot on a completed board of 5?10?8?Q?9?, and Talbot put in another 53,000 from the small blind.

Carbo sat in the big blind and made a raise to 123,000. Parker went with his hands in his hair and thought it over for a minute or so before calling the clock on himself. He would not make the decision in time, resulting in his cards hitting the muck at the end of the 30-second mark, accidentally exposing his J? in the process.

Carbo then was kind enough to allow Talbot to pick one of his cards to show the table, and Parker picked the 10?, leading to a loud expletive arising from the PokerStars Ambassador.