Spinks Continues to Climb

Jon Spinks is up to 160,000 chips and is in good shape as Day 2b enters its latter stages.

It was Spinks who opened the preflop betting round with a raise to 1,800 from UTG+1 and it appeared that nobody wanted to tangle with the talented Brit as they all folded around to Bash Mahmood on the button. Mahmood, who is a very loose aggressive player and a regular at the Dusk Till Dawn club in Nottingham, three-bet to 3,200, which was enough to fold out the blinds. Spinks was going nowhere though and he made the call.

The first three community cards read and Spinks check-called a 4,000 bet from his aggressive opponent. The turn saw Spinks check again and Mahmood checked behind. Possibly sensing weakness in Mahmood or possibly because the river helped him, Spinks led for 5,600 and after 25-30 seconds of deliberation Mahmood folded.