Matthew Bellsmith was a big chip leader at the last break, and we just witnessed a hand that may at least partially demonstrate how he’s done it. Nothing exciting, just a willingness to play pots in position and put his opponents under pressure.
Matthew Grocholsky opened the action with a min-raise to 1.6K from middle position and found a caller in Bellsmith playing from the cutoff. The blinds got out of the hand and the flop was dealt:
Grocholsky bet 2.2K and Bellsmith just called. The turn came: 
. Grocholsky led for 5K, but this time Bellsmith raised to 12K. Grocholsky made the call.
The river was the 
and Grocholsky decided to check – which was met with a shove by Bellsmith. Grocholsky folded… and Bellsmith calmly added almost 16K to his stack.
