Bowker the Big Bully
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A young player opened to 5,100 from the button, and Kyle Bowker didn't take too kindly to that. From the small blind, "kwob20" three-bet to 12,500, and his opponent eyed up his remaining stack. After a minute, he threw out another five yellowbirds to make a total four-bet of 30,100. Undeterred, Bowker announced an all in, and started sliding his towers out across the line.
His opponent asked for a count, despite the fact that Bowker had him covered just in yellow chips. It was about 140,000 total for Bowker, nearly twice as much as his opponent had behind. After a long pause and a couple of sideways glances, the button surrendered.
Without missing a beat, Bowker showed the 
as the dealer pushed him the pot.
"F***!" yelled the folder, followed by a very quiet "sorry". Bowker's bullying has bolstered his stack up to a very healthy 175,000
and finding a caller holding 
and the board coming out 
to put him back up to around 50,000
to see Felipe Ramos fire out 15,000 into a pot of about that much. His lone opponent had let him make that bet before check-raising all in for 45,200 total. Ramos took a soak in the tank for several minutes as he assessed the potential damage to his stack. Finally, he double-clutched and plunked the calling chips into the pot.
made things awfully interesting as Ramos picked up eight more outs to try for the knockout. He couldn't find any of them, though, as the 
locked up the pot and the double for the at-risk player. Ramos would have shot himself into the top five if he could have dragged that pot, but he's still doing just fine with about 160,000 now.
against Affleck's 
and had a real sweat before he doubled up to 50,000.
board.
against a short stack's 
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after an 
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