Hankin Takes One Down
Level 4
: 200/300, 300 ante
Howard Hankin was on the button and called an under-the-gun raise to 800, which took action heads up to a flop of 
. The original raiser made a continuation-bet of 1,000 and Hankin pumped it up to 2,400. His opponent called.
The turn came 
and Hankin's opponent led out, firing 4,200. Hankin called and the dealer brought the river 
. Hankin's opponent connected his knuckles with the felt, and Hankin reached for chips, casually tossing out his remaining small-denomination chips to total 2,700.
Such a bet proved to be enough to earn him the pot as his opponent looked back at his cards and then sent them to the dealer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
33,300
33,300
|
33,300 |
with over 7,000 in the middle. Spaulding bet another 7,500 and the player on his left jammed for a bit more, resulting in folds back to Spaulding who wasted no time making the call.
shuffled a few outs around, but it made no difference in the end as the river 
completed the runout and Spaulding took down the pot.
. Both players checked.
and the early-position player checked again. Izadi announced a bet of 4,500 and his opponent check-jammed for Izadi's effective stack of 10,500, which he immediately called. 
for the easy dub and now finds himself back over starting stack.
. Tommy Tran was first to act in the hijack and checked, as did cutoff. The player on the button shoved all in for 10,600 and Tran check-shoved over the top to put the cutoff all in as well. The cutoff did not oblige.
and river 
completed the runout to give him trip kings and score him both the pot and the knockout.