That's a Tough Sell
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Chris Tryba is up early after risking nearly all his chips on a bluff.
When we walked up to the table, there was a partial board of 
in the middle of the table, and Tryba had checked. John Rhodes was his lone opponent, and Rhodes slid out a bet of 2,400 into a pot of 3,600. Tryba was having none of it, though, sneaking in a check-raise to 7,400 total. Rhodes didn't waste much time calling.
That led them to the board-pairing 
river, and Tryba motioned for the dealer to spread the pot. Satisfied by what he saw, he fired out a final bet of 12,000, about 2/3rds of his remaining stack. Rhodes spent several long minutes agonizing in the tank before checking his cards one last time and spinning them into the muck.
"Phew, that was a tough sell!" Tryba said as he wiped the imaginary sweat from his brow. He flipped up his airball 
, good enough to take the big pot and move him up to about 36,000 in the process.