John Duthie limped the button and then Hoyt Corkins raised to 10,000. Duthie reraised all in and then Cokins went into the tank. Eventually, he announced a call and with the chips stacks virtually even, the cards were on their backs.
Corkins:
Duthie:
Duthie held the dominating hand and stayed in front on the flop of . The turn brought a nice sweat card with the peeling off to give Corkins a straight and flush draw to go with his pair of aces. The river completed that flush draw with the and the chips were counted down. Corkins was the at-risk player with 84,000 chips and scooped the pot to leave Duthie with just 7,000 chips.
Hoyt Corkins moved all in from the button and John Duthie made the quick call for his last 37,000 chips. He held the better hand with the , but Corkins had live cards with the .
The flop came down and Duthie stayed in front, taking away the queen as an out for Corkins. The turn was the and then the river completed the board with the .
Duthie doubled to 74,000, but Corkins still have the lead with 101,000.
There's hasn't been much action between Hoyt Corkins and John Duthie so far. A few small pots back and forth, but nothing big. Duthie is sitting on about 50,000 and Corkins has about 125,000.