Show if I fold?

Philip Sternheimer opened the action from early position and got one caller in Steve O’Dwyer. The two of them saw a flop of . Sternheimer continued for 14,000 and O’Dwyer called. The turn was the , this time Sternheimer checked and it was O’Dwyer who did the betting to the tune of 30,000. A call from Sternheimer and we saw a river card . Sternheimer changed tack and led out for 33,300 and perhaps regretted it when O’Dwyer raised him to 82,000.

Sternheimer asked O’Dwyer how much he had behind and discovered it wasn’t a whole lot more. For his part Sternheimer had 120,000 behind so it was a critical decision. Both players had taken a strange line in the hand and it was left to Sternheimer to the one who faced the final confusing decision. He took several minutes to decide. “Will you show if I fold?” he asked at one point, but O’Dwyer sat still as a rock, hand over his mouth.

Sternheimer folded and after the chips were pushed to him O’Dwyer quietly slid his cards, face down, to the dealer. No show.