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What Would You Do? HAND 10
Hero: John Hayes
Villain: Pham Christian
Northern Lights Casino
Final Table of MSPT $1,100 Main Event 30 (05/19/2013)
8 players left (160 players - 1st place pays $44k)
Blinds 8k – 16k with 2k ante
Hero: (UTG … 1.1m)
Villain: (Cutoff … 291k)
With 8 players left, as the hero, you have 1/3 of the chips in play. You’ve been running over the table, raising every pot you enter.
You’re Under-the-gun with [Ah][6s] and raise to 35k.
You get two callers, UTG +2 and the Villain from the cutoff.
Flop: [3s][5d][6d]
(131k in the pot)
You flop top pair, top kicker, and lead with a 41k bet.
UTG +2 folds
The Villain raises, “all-in” for 255k
With 427k in the pot, it will cost 214k more.
What would you do?
Hayes 1.1m
Powell 640k
Pham 291k
Bender 260k
Romer 257k
Stevermer 239k
Kuznia 200k
Filippi 195k