Action Cools Down in the Freezeout

Monika Kostanjevec

Level 36 : Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante

For quite some time, heads-up play has been slow. Both players have been playing very carefully, very few bets going in.

One of such hands that made it to showdown started characteristically, with a limp from Johan 'YoH ViraL' Guilbert on the button. He was holding J?9?. Antonio Galiana checked in the big blind with 9?5?.

The flop was 6?6?9?. Both players made two pair, but neither bet. The turn was the 8?. Galiana bet 600,000 and Guilbert called fairly quickly.

The river was the 4?. Galiana now checked and Guilbert made one of the biggest bets we have seen recently, 2,300,000 or almost four big blinds. Galiana quickly called and saw that he was out-kicked.