‘You don’t have a Queen, do you?

‘No Queen.’

‘Then I got you. Let’s go.’ Jamie Gold is pacing up and down, a mass of gesticulations and non-stop chatter. In contrast, his opponent Paul Wasicka is sitting still, thinking, listening to Jamie, and processing everything that has gone before. Finally, he responds: ‘I think you’re on a draw. All right, you talked me into it.’

‘You call?’

And without waiting for the answer, Jamie Gold tables his hand and throws his arms in the air shouting ‘yes’ as, almost reluctantly, 26-year-old Paul Wasicka rises from his seat to see Gold’s top pair leave him with just two outs to stay in the 2006 WSOP Main Event.