‘It’s the beginning of Day 2 at the EPT main event in Baden and a guy in early position raises. The button calls and I’m in the big blind with A♦-10♦ so I call as well. The flop brings three small diamonds giving me the flopped nut flush. The early raiser bets out, the next guy raises and I flat-call. The initial raiser now moves all-in for his remaining 6500 and the next guy, who has 40,000 to my 27,000, flat-calls him. His call here tells me he has the made flush or something like two-pair at the very least. So I sit for a while and think to myself, “If I move all-in here I know he’s going to take me for the bare A♦,” so I move all-in, which is a massive overbet. He calls instantly with the King-high flush and says, “Ace of diamonds?” I tell him I have it, but he doesn’t like it when I turn over another diamond too.

It’s the only time I’ve seen three people flop the top three flushes. My thinking was that if I did just flat-call and another diamond came up I might not get another coin out of him. By deliberating and then making the all-in move it looked like I was trying to hit my drawing hand. That’s exactly what he thought and I got paid in full.