Steicke Doubles Up Early

Watch out, field. David Steicke is a dangerous, unpredictable player when he doesn't have chips. When he has chips, Steicke's a monster.

Steicke already has twice the starting stack. As he recounted the action to us, he was in the small blind and was one of two players to call a preflop raise to 250. On a flop of {Q-Spades}

, Steicke checked to the preflop raiser. That player bet 600. After the player in between folded, Steicke check-raised to 1,700 and was called.

The turn was a blank, the {2-Clubs}

. Steicke bet another 2,700 chips and was called again. A potential flush filled with the {7-Diamonds}

river. Steicke made a weak lead of 2,400, then snap-called when his opponent jammed all in. Steicke's opponent showed the second nut flush, {K-Diamonds}