Billirakis Crippled
Nivel 29
: 60,000/120,000, 0 ante
Viacheslav Zhukov raised the button, and Steve Billirakis defended his big blind with a call.
The flop came , and Billirakis checked. When Zhukov bet, he spent a long while in the tank before apparently making the decision this was the one. He eventually called, and he'd act quicker on the last two streets. Billirakis check-called bets on the turn and river, the last bullet costing him nearly all of his chips.
We saw Billirakis holding the , but he waited to see Zhukov's hand first. It was , and it was good enough to scoop the whole thing. Billirakis spent a moment staring in vain at his four cards before placing them on the felt face-down and shaking his head.
He's got just 50,000 chips left.