Can’t Win ‘Em All

Antonio Matias may have won an EPT – incidentally, at €404,793, the biggest single cash by a Portuguese player, ever – but that doesn’t mean he’s destined to do well in this Unibet Open. Just now I found him facing a 3,600 bet from Carlos Oliveira on the river of an :::8d :::Qd :::2c :::3h :::9s board; he thought about it for a long time but ultimately folded, dropping to 13,500 in the process. Oliveira is doing rather better on 28,000.