Time for Apel to Get His Mac

Down to the felt and in desperate need of a double through, Sascha Apel threw in his shrapnel preflop before being looked up by the big blind who was virtually priced in to call.

"Wow," gawped Apel as he revealed Js-Jd. "I only looked at one card."

But poker is an unpredictable oddity at times, and although in dominating shape against Qs-8d, a queen on fourth street turned the tables and sent the German home.