Salvatore Polletta Commits Highway Robbery

Salvatore Polletta makes it 3,600 to go preflop and is called by Sylvain Lepage, but then Ghassan Menachi pops it to 12,000 from the small blind. 

Both players make the call and they go to a flop of . 

The action then checks through and the trio continues to the turn . 

Menachi checks again but this time Polletta bets 6,500 into the pot of almost 40,000 and both opponents toss in their cards. 

“Wow!” several other players exclaim, “How did you get away with that!?” 

“Thank you, sir, I appreciate that very much!” Polletta jokingly says to Menachi as he stacks his new chips. 

Salvatore Polletta – 93,000 (116 bb)
Sylvain Lepage – 54,000 (68 bb)
Ghassan Menachi – 46,000 (58 bb)