Pay the Fielder

Kevin Taylor

No, not Prince Fielder, the Detroit Tiger's new $215 Million man. Jeff Fielder... of Iowa (according to Layne Flack).

The two biggest stacks in the room, Fielder and Mark Kroon, were seated at the same table and fireworks were bound to happen. Kroon opened the pot with a raise to 6,100 and was called by Fielder and both of the players in the blinds.

The flop was {4-Clubs} {9-Spades} {2-Clubs} and after Kroon continued for 11,700, he found himself heads up with the only man in the room capable of knocking him out, Fielder. The turn was the {5-Hearts} and Kroon continued for 22,700 this time. Fielder called again.

The river was the {4-Diamonds} . Kroon stacked out some chips, then put them back in his stack and finally sat back in his chair and thought for a bit. Finally, he checked and it was Fielders turn to stack out chips. However, he ended up placing the 30,000 in chips just over the betting line only to be check-raised to 75,700. Immediately Fielder seemed pained muttering to himself that he should have just checked behind. After some more thought, Fielder decided he had to make the call.

"Nice call," Kroon praised. Fielder tabled {a-Clubs} {4-Hearts} to scoop the nearly 250,000 chip pot. You might want to keep in mind that this single pot was bigger than all but a couple of stacks that advanced from Day 1a. Impressive.