All In and a Call!
Ty Reiman has the button, and he raises to 525,000. Harrison Gimbel calls from the big blind.
Both men check the flop of , and the falls on fourth street. Gimbel leads out with a bet of 600,000, and Reiman rests his head on his hand to think it over. After just a minute, he raises to 1.6 million straight. Gimbel asks the dealer to pull in the chips so he can see what he's working with. With the deliberateness of a surgeon, he begins to cut out a hefty chunk of chips from his stack. He slides out another 2 million chips for a total reraise to 3.6 million. Reiman doesn't waste too much time making the call and we've got a huge pot brewing.
The river fills out the board with the . Gimbel's next move is the big one as he quietly announces, "I'm all in." Reiman has looked disinterested the entire hand, but he asks for a count as he leans forward across the felt. The total amount is 11,990,000, and Reiman calls with the covering stack!!
Showdown
Gimbel:
Reiman:
"We chop?" asks Reiman, both men trying to figure out exactly what's transpired in this 35-million-chip pot. It is indeed a chop, and the two men take their money back as they try to lower their heart rates back to a reasonable level.