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  By all reports Eli Elezra is a nice guy. He is also a lights out poker player, and he shows this consistently wherever he plays. But sometimes even the best poker players can get tempted to do something they so obviously shouldn't, bucking against the very instinct that made them successful in the first place.



  This time it was Eli's turn, playing in the Mega Match week of the hit NBC poker show, Poker After Dark, hosted by Shana Hiatt. This event normally took six pros with a buy in of $20k each and shipped the total pot to the winner. During that week the buy in was $50k, and the winner would grab $300k. Eli was playing against Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstien and Allen Cunningham, and the latter was in this hand with him.



  Eli opened things up with a call, just limping in with:






... Allen, who had him crushed with:






... raised it up to $13k. Eli sat, and Eli thought. He played with his chips and went into the tank. He thought of Mr. Cunningham and the kinds of cards he would likely play, and he knew there was a very good chance he was dominated. Of course, there might be the chance that Allen was playing a mid pair, or even a big pair, and Eli could catch an ace and kill him. He called.



  The flop came:







... and now both players had a straight draw. It was Allen's turn to act. Allen bet $10k. Now Eli knew he was beat. He still had to think and wonder, and almost made the call. Instead, he wised up and folded, wishing he had saved himself $13k by doing so earlier.