Brecher Drags a Monster, Failla Baffled
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A player in early position opened the pot with a raise, and James Arruebarreena made the call next door. Action came to Steve Brecher (who happened to have 
), and he spent some time considering his play. As he was thinking, though, Carl Sheddan shoved all in for about 40,000 out of turn. The dealer put the action back on Brecher, and he decided to make a reraise of his own. Now with an option to take them back, Sheddan still stuck all his chips in the middle, and Arruebarreena called off the majority of his own stack as well. He tabled the unfortunate 
, and Sheddan's 
was far overmatched.
The board ran out 
, and Brecher takes the big pot to skyrocket into contention for the chip lead. His next-door neighbor, Will Failla, was thoroughly baffled. First, he took on Brecher for not flatting once Sheddan acted out of turn. If Brecher had, the action would not have changed, and Sheddan's chips would have had to stay in. But he stuck them in anyways, and that peeved Failla too. Someone mentioned they thought Brecher might be bluffing.
"Bluffing?!" Failla almost fell out of his chair. "He's older than dirt! He doesn't bluff, buddy."
Brecher does, on occasion, bluff. But not that time. Those aces shoot Brecher all the way up to 124,000.