Chunky Early Pot for Marcel Paval

Photo: Marcel Paval

Around 9,000 is already in the middle in a hand between Marcel Paval in the cutoff and Timothy Hoch in the small blind, with the completed board reading .

Hoch checks to his opponent, who fires out a bet of 7,500. After some thought, Hoch makes the call, but mucks his hand when he is shown the bad news after Paval reveals for the turned ten-high straight. 

Hoch jokingly remarks “He hasn’t even woken up yet!”, as his opponent rakes in a sizeable early pot.

Marcel Paval – 60,000 (300 bb)
Timothy Hoch – 33,000 (165 bb)