01-29-2009 18:13 UTC+8

Castle, on the Verge of Elimination, Doubles Up

[user75032]

Kastle survives a close one.

Casey Kastle limped into the pot from early position. Three other people limped in behind him before the player in the big blind raised to 4,500. Kastle was playing roughly 12,000 behind and shipped it all into the middle. That cleared out all of the limpers, but the big blind made the call.

BB: {J-Spades}

{J-Spades}

{J-Diamonds}

Kastle:

{9-Spades}

{9-Hearts}

Kastle thought the big blind may have just been making a move, but he turned over a real hand that had Kastle's pocket nines in bad shape. The flop changed things around, coming {9-Diamonds}

{9-Diamonds}

{7-Diamonds}

{K-Hearts}

to give Kastle a set. That was the winning hand after the turn and river came small cards, {2-Spades}

{2-Spades}

and

{4-Spades}

. He now has 25,200.

Tags: Casey Kastle