Salter Gets There in the End
Level 43
: 200,000/400,000, 40,000 ante
At no point today has Jack Salter had what one would consider a healthy stack. The British One Drop finalist have been trailing the average stack for the last day and a half, but a lucky double just got Salter some much-needed breathing space.
Salter moved in for 5,180,000 from the cutoff and Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault made the call from the button before both of the blinds folded.
Salter:
Carpentier-Perrault:
The flop came , and right before the dealer put out the turn, Salter yelled "Spade!". It wasn't. It was the .
"Seven," Salter shouted before the river. It wasn't. It was the . Not quite a straight but good enough for the double.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jack Salter | 11,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault | 4,500,000 | -2,645,000 |