Tough Decisions
Now that everyone left is in the money, a lot of players are really starting to have fun, especially if there are cameras nearby.
We arrived at a table to see the dealer pull in a bet and a call on the flop. The board read 
, and Max Steinberg and Age Spets were the only players in the hand. The turn was the 
, and both players checked. The 
then completed the board on the river, and Steinberg led out for 50,000.
Spets immediately contorted his face in an anguished look and took off his sunglasses. He said, party to himself, partly to the table, "I think I'm behind, here." He then pulled two dark green 25,000-denomination chips from his stack, and played with them in his right hand while he continued to talk about his situation. "I'm behind, that's what it looks like." "Do you think I'm behind?" he asked Steinberg. Steinberg sat motionless, saying nothing. "What do you want me to do?" Still nothing.
Then Spets had a minor epiphany. "We could flip for it." He pulled a coin out of his pocket and asked Steinberg, "Do you want to flip for it?" Steinberg still said nothing. "Ok, we'll flip for it," Spets decided. "Do you want heads or tails?" Spets finally got a reaction from Steinberg. "Heads," he said starting to crack a smile, as he couldn't help but be entertained by Spets's thought process. Spets then started to flip, but he paused. "Wait, is it heads I call or heads I fold?" Steinberg kept smiling, still slightly shaking his head, and said nothing. "Ok," Spets decided. "If it's heads, you decide, if it's tails, I decide." He then stood up. "Let's play," He flipped the coin, caught it and slapped it on the back of his other hand. "It's my decision," he said. Steinberg, still smiling, told him, "It was always your decision."
Spets sat back down, then tossed forward the green chips. "I have king-jack," Steinberg announced as he turned over 
. Spets nodded, as if that's what he expected, and tossed his cards to the muck.