Linda Huard opened the action from under the gun, and found a call from Benny Chen in the small blind. Benny check-called on the flop, and then check-shoved on the turn after Linda fired a big second bullet. Linda made the call to find her over-pair trailing the turned top-two of Benny.
Linda:
Benny:
The fell on the river, and Benny won a pot of 700K, diminishing Linda’s stack to around 190K. The blinds went up on the next hand as level 18 ended.
Linda recovered regained a few chips at the start of the new level, when she flatted a 17K open from Jason Helder, which was also called by Patrick St-Onge in the big blind. All three players checked it down to the river, and with the board showing , Jason fired 15K. Linda raised to 50K, and after Patrick folded his hand, Jason threw in calling chips. She tabled , prompting Jason to muck his hand.