Heimiller Can't Pull off the Fade
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Dan Heimiller, sitting in late position, opened for pot (35,000) pre-flop. David Nowakowski was in the small blind and re-raised to 115,000, almost enough to put himself all in. Heimiller tanked for about two minutes before just calling the raise. That call prompted Nowakowski to throw his last 13,000 into the pot blind, before the flop came.
Heimiller called the bet on a flop of 
. "I do have a flush draw," he said.
"So do I," Nowakowski responded.
"That's not good." Heimiller showed 
. His pair of fours was temporarily best against Nowakowski's 
. The turn 
gave Nowakowski a second flush draw, which filled with the river 
.
"That would have been a sick fade," said Nowakowski, meaning if he had somehow lost both halves of the pot by not improving. Instead he dragged the whole thing and is up to 260,000. Heimiller is down to 195,000.