Paulius Vaitiekunas vs. Eric Blair

Photo: Paulius Vaitiekunas

Eric Blair opens to 250,000 in the hijack and Neel Murthy calls on the button. Paulius Vaitiekunas three-bets to 950,000 in the big blind and Blair calls.

Murthy folds, and action goes heads up to a flop of . Vaitiekunas continuation-bets 600,000 and Blair calls.

The turn is the and Vaitiekunas exhausts a time chip before betting 1.3 million. Blair calls after a couple of seconds.

The river comes the and Vaitiekunas uses two more time chips, thinking for nearly a minute-and-a-half before betting 2.9 million. Blair thinks for nearly the same amount of time, using two of his own time chips, and folds.

“I had a full house,” says Blair after the hand.

“Tens full?” asks Vaitiekunas.

“[Was it] no good?” responds Blair.

“Sometimes good,” says Vaitiekunas, drawing a laugh from a couple of players.

“I was good,” Vaitiekunas adds. “After the river. [If you] jam [on the] turn, I fold.”

“Why jam?” asks Blair.

“Why not call river?” retorts Vaitiekunas.

Paulius Vaitiekunas – 7,575,000 (60 bb)
Neel Murthy – 5,300,000 (42 bb)
Eric Blair – 3,825,000 (30 bb)