The Case of the Vanishing Chips
Level 2
: 25/50, 0 ante
Karlo Lopez, who in addition to being an accomplished poker player is also an expert magician specializing in "sleight of hand" tricks, opened for 150 from the cutoff, and it folded to the small blind who called. The big blind then made it 375 to go, Lopez called, and the third player folded.
The flop came 
, eliciting a bet of 375 from the reraiser. Lopez couldn't conjure a reason to call, and so pushed his cards to the dealer.
A slow start for Lopez, who sits with 2,175 as we begin the second level of play.