Somehow a routine split pot got very aggressive and fiesty over on Table 1 just a minute ago. The ‘Supernova’ Dario Minieri (minus his Roma scarf, what’s up with that!?) was all-in vs another guy and both held AQ. The big stack of the table, Londoner Dave Gregory, said they should just sort the chips out afterwards as it was a likely split pot. The dealer followed protocol though and divided both players’ chips up and put them in the middle….when the inevitable split pot arrived Gregory kept on at the dealer for wasting time.

To his credit Minieri told him to give the guy a break and eventually everything was sorted out fine. Both Gregory and Mineri had a point and I’m sure that play will continue as normal from now on. By the way, Minieri has around 20k at this point and will be a dark horse for the title if he can get through the day with a playable chip count.

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