Seiver Says Goodbye
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Scott Seiver raised to 4,500 from middle position, and the table folded around to the big blind. There, Phil Laak leaned over the table to have a look at Seiver's dwindling stack. "I'm going to charge you an additional 7,200 after I call," he declared, sticking in a three-bet to 11,700. "When I say I'm going to charge you, that's only if you call. If you fold, there's no charge."
Seiver did not fold, instead matching the bet to see a flop with about 45,000 chips left. It came 
, and the action went check-check to the 
turn. Laak took the lead now with a small bet of 9,000, and Seiver tanked and called. That led them to the 
river, and Laak was peeking once again. "Could you move your right arm for me?" he asked, spying Seiver's ~35,000 remaining chips. Satisfied by what he saw, Laak grabbed 200,000 in green chips and slung them forward. Seiver was taken aback.
"If I end up calling, I don't want you to think it's a slowroll," he said, leaning back in his chair. Seiver would spend the next four or five minutes tossing the decision around in his head. "How are two queens right here?" he asked at one point. After another minute, he seemed to be convinced he was beaten. "It's all making sense. All of it. I wish you had bet the flop, I'd be so much happier."
Finally, Seiver did make the call, but we'd never see the two queens he claimed to have. Laak tabled 
, and his overpair is good enough to collect the knockout. Seiver is out as the third casualty of the day, while Laak has worked his way close to 390,000 courtesy of those cowboys.