Max Cooler for Nicholls

A hand that was to escalate massively started with an early position open from Colin Gillon to 22,000, three-bet by Max Silver to 72,000. Over to Anthony Nicholls, who cold four-bet to 225,000 (775,000 behind).  Gillon folded immediately, but Silver, after a bit of a think, set Nicholls in. Nicholls indicated

God Loves a Tryer

Alex Foxen's stack took an early hit after a river bluff with a busted straight draw failed to dissuade short stack Anthony Nicholls from calling.  A pot of over half a million chips was already formed when Foxen made his river bet (it looked like 350,000) into two players.  Nicholls,