Mortensen Earns Some Building Blocks

Carlos Mortensen raised it to 1,000 and got calls from Annette Obrestad, Mike Matusow and Gus Hansen, who was in the big blind. The flop was all spades coming down {4-Spades} {10-Spades} {7-Spades} , and both Matusow and Hansen checked the action over to Mortensen, who led out for 3,000. Obrestad and Matusow both folded, but Hansen, however decided to stick in a check-raise making it an additional 5,000 on top. Mortensen called, and the {9-Clubs} hit on the turn.

Hansen led out for 9,300 on the turn, and Mortensen studied and stacked before moving the rest of chips to the center of the pot. Hansen quickly made the call and the cards were on their backs. Mortensen had flopped top set with pocket tens, but would need help against the flopped flush of Hansen, who held {6-Spades} {3-Spades} .