button in SafariMei Stays Frozen as Donets Tanks
With about 300,000 already in the middle preflop, Yinjie Mei fired 91,000 from the cutoff on the 2♠10♣9♣ flop, and Aleksei Donets called on the button.
The 8♠ rolled off on the turn, and Mei moved all in, comfortably covering Donets' remaining 190,000. Faced with a decision for his tournament life, Donets disappeared into the tank.
Seated directly to Mei's left, Donets spent the next several minutes staring him down, trying to pick up the slightest tell. Mei, meanwhile, resembled a statue, barely blinking as he sat motionless.
The tank stretched on and on. Other players at the table wandered off for comfort breaks, returned to find the hand still in progress, took another leisurely stroll around the Paris Ballroom, and came back again to discover Donets was still thinking.
After around nine minutes, the clock was finally called. As the countdown ticked toward zero, Donets reluctantly folded, flashing Q♦Q♠ for an overpair as he did.
Mei quietly slid his cards face down to the dealer, offering no clues as to what he held, before dragging in the massive pot to move to just shy of the one-million-chip mark.