Cake Poker Bluff of the Week

The Cake Poker Bluff of the Week didn’t happen anywhere near a poker table. (Image Courtesy eHow)

This week isn’t so much about the bluff as it is the ballsy call.

It’s one thing to have a guy reraise you all-in for a few thousand dollars, and you make the right call with bottom pair. But it’s a whole other ball of wax when it’s your life that’s on the line.

Last Friday in Haverhill, Mass. A robber walked into the White Hen Pantry and approached the cashier, 22-year-old Adam Alsarabi. The robber said he had a gun and demanded Alsarabi hand over the all cash.

Alsarabi, who it seems literally had The Nuts, denied the request and called the bluff asking the robber to show him the gun. The robber folded and fled the scene. He was later found by police hiding in the nearby woods. And no, he didn’t have a gun on him.

A detective Sgt. Robert Pistone warned others against making this kind of call saying, “We don’t recommend this course of action. Why take the chance with your life over the loss of money? There is no need to be a hero.”

Why Sgt. Pistone? Because when you got a read on a guy, you just have to trust your instincts.