When a player moves all in, shrugs his shoulders and stands up preparing to leave, he's usually not concealing the nuts. But such was the case for Olaf De Zeeuw, the Dutch player on table 12, who had witnessed at close quarters the car crash sevens-versus-aces hand described below, and feared the worst for himself.
The problem for De Zeeuw was that he was facing the same player - his countryman Chin Sin Chang - who previously held those quad sevens. On a board of 7c-10c-6h, De Zeeuw held 8h-9h for the nut straight, but Chang, who called, had pocket sevens again for middle set.
Chin Sin Chang
Chang had all the chips and a redraw to the full house or back-to-back quads. This prompted De Zeeuw's sigh and preparations to depart. But lightening did not strike twice and this time turn and river bricked. De Zeeuw doubled up to about 15,000, while Chang took a hit to his early big stack.
