Daniel In Dire Need of a Double
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante
It folded around to Jacob Bazeley in the small blind. Bazeley took a look at his neighbor Daniel Negreanu's small stack, then announced he was all in. Negreanu, with but 106,000 left, hemmed and hawed for a half-minute, then stood up and announced his decision.
"I�� am going�� to gamble and call!" he said. He then turned over his hand -- 
-- and saw that he was in fact ahead of Bazeley's 
.
A chopped pot was likely, though, and indeed after the five community cards came 
, chop it up they did. Negreanu still has about 120,000 now, while Bazeley has 940,000.