Phil Laak starts this sit and go hand, then abandons after action behind.

This hand starts at 55 seconds.

The chips stacks in this country vs country round robin poker tournament are Phil Laak $7,475, Hewton $4150, Storktry $4875, Vandenberg $4750, Marmorsteen $4375, and Seidelin with $2375.

The blinds are $75 and $150

This is a sit and go format tournament called the poker Nations cup where winners are assigned points and they collect these points for their associated countries they are playing for.

This hand is a failed squeeze play, which the player involved making the squeeze play, failed to recognize the impact of his stack stack against his opponents he was trying to squeeze, and essentially forced him to call rather than forcing him to fold based on and strength and pot odds.

Here's how the hand plays:

Vandenberg who is under the gun plus one is dealt pocket tens and puts in a raise to $400 making the pot $625, the next player folds but phil laak who is dealt pocket fives makes the correct call in answering the raise here, even though he knows Vandenberg has been tight- but the price is right and makes the pot $1025.

It folds around to Seidelin who looks at his 98 offsuit and decides to make a squeeze play here, based on the fact that Phil Laak is likely to hold given he did not show enough strength with his call. 

With pocket tens that is a tough hand to get away from especially given the fact that he still can have more than $2,000 left in his stack if he loses.

The pot represented nearly half of Seidelin‘s stack, but Seidelin is still in the orange mzone which makes his all in play here questionably premature, as does the fact that he actually prices in the original pre-flop raiser who had been playing tight.

With Seidelin‘s shove the pot is now $3325 giving Vandenberg approximately 1.7 pot odds to call.  Slightly on the marginal side, with pocket tens that is a tough hand to get away from especially given the fact that he still can have more than $2000 left in his stack if he loses.

Seidelin was really hoping that Vandenberg had some over cards and would fold hands like King Queen suited or queen jack suited and maybe even ace king, which in the case of Vandenberg calling she would at least have live cards at approximately  a 36% chance to win the pot. Another consideration here is that Vandenberg may have very well put Seidelin and one tilt after he lost some of his chips to Phil laak earlier.

Vandenberg makes the right call, even though he couldn't be entirely sure he was ahead, and Phil Laak knowing he's behind at lease one of these players makes the right fold.

There is no help for 98 suited in these community cards, and Vandenberg takes the rest of Seidelin stack.  A 5 did come on the river which would've given Phil Laak the hand but Phil knew he made the right play, and so did Vandenberg.

This is one of those situations where you hear the pros often talking about taking advantage of your opponents mistakes.  Some of the players at this table or certainly not world-class players in this hand shows it clearly, when an attempt at a squeeze play was not really a squeeze play at all - but instead a walk into the fire.