Irani Doubles with Some Controversey
From middle position, Lee Childs raised to 45,000. Louis Cohen made the call from the hijack seat, and then action fell on Zal Irani asked, "Is that a call?" from the cutoff seat. It seemed as though he was asking if the two players in front of him, Childs and Cohen, limped in. When someone responded "yes," Irani took that as there were two limps in front of him. The person who responded was saying yes to the fact that Cohen had called the raise from Childs.
Irani seemed to have misunderstood and said, "Let's make it 60," but that wasn't enough for a raise. After a bit of debate, the floor was called. It was ruled that because Irani announced a raise to 60,000, and that was more than half of the original raise, he was forced into a min-raise and needed to make it 70,000. He did so, then action folded back to Childs.
Childs reraised all in for just under 600,000, and Cohen folded. Irani quickly called with the 
and put himself at risk for 405,000 total. Childs held the 
.
The flop, turn and river ran out 
to give Irani the win and double him up. Childs was left with 170,000 in chips and didn't seem to like what had happened, but more so how it happened.
Someone at the table made the comment to Irani, "Nice angle," but laughed and it seemed like a friendly little ribbing at Irani's mistake when he actually had two kings. Childs also commented, "Nice angle, bro," but his tone seemed a little more serious. Irani defended himself and said that he wasn't angling, but made a mistake after a misunderstanding. Childs repeated himself and said, "Nice angle, bro."
Whether or not it was an angle or an honest mistake, it's up to the interpreter. What we do know is that Childs was left with under 200,000 in chips while Irani moved to over 850,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
890,000
650,000
|
650,000 |
|
315,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
170,000
-590,000
|
-590,000 |