11-12-2009 18:34 UTC+8

Hall Can't Get Away

[user75032]

It was a five-way pot that each player paid 1,000 chips to enter before the flop. Action checked all the way to the river, {3-Diamonds}

{3-Diamonds}

{Q-Hearts}

{4-Spades}

{7-Clubs}

{5-Diamonds}

. That's where the big blind finally opened the betting with a bet of 2,500. Tom Hall called from late position before the small blind check-raised to 8,500. The big blind released his hand, but Hall couldn't do the same. He sighed, shook his head, and then announced a call in a tone as if to say he knew he was beat. He was; his two pair {5-Clubs}

{5-Clubs}

{4-Clubs}

was second-best to the straight of the small blind, {A-Clubs}

{A-Clubs}

{6-Clubs}

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