The players in the WPT Montreal have completed their first level of the day and are now on break.
The last hand before the break saw some blind-on-blind excitement between Carter Swidler and Michael Dentale. The two have been tangling regularly as Carter started the day relatively short-stacked and has had to pick strategic spots to try and keep his head above water. In the hand in question, Michael was in the bb and Carter the sb and when it folded around to Carter, he raised all-in for 390K. Michael made the call and the hands were tabled.
Carter:
Michael:
There wasn’t nearly as much suspense on the run-out of the board as you might imagine – the flop of
gave Carter a straight and on the turn he added a flush draw with the
– and then Carter got there with the
on the river.
Carter improved to 815,000 in chips, while Michael was left with 1,320,000.