Event 19: Academy Award

$200 + $30 Deep Stack No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Knee High in Chips and In the Tank

Blinds 25k/50k/5k ante

Andy Knee (Mt. Sinai, NY) raises from middle position to 150k and gets a call from Leon Motola (East Windsor, NJ), who's in the SB.

Flop: 9 3 8

Motola leads out for 250k, roughly half his stack, and Knee goes in the tank.  He checks his cards, uses a lot of hand motions as he reenacts the hand, and grimaces multiple times.

Knee eyeballs Motola's stack and asks for a count.  This goes on for two minutes before Knee shrugs and moves all in.  Motola snap calls.

Motola: A J (two over cards)
Knee: 9 9 (set of nines)

"What are you worried about," says Motola who is dead to running straight cards.

"I didn't say I was worried," says Knee, "I wanted you to come along. I was playing the game."

The board bricks out and Motola is out in 24th place for $767.

"What a great performance," says Glen Wilkins (Freehold, NJ) who has a front row seat.

Knee has been a chip leader the last few levels and is up to 1.55 million.