Rex Clinkscales Over Half a Million
Level 17
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
With about 20,000 in the pot, on a board reading 
, Rex Clinkscales checked from the small blind.
Aleksei Opalikhin was in the big blind and bet 6,000. Clinkscales thought for a moment and check-raised to 18,000. Opalikhin called.
The turn was the 
. Clinkscales led out for 35,000 and Opalikhin tossed his cards into the muck.
Clinkscales bagged his chips at the end of Day 2 last night and quickly hopped into a side event. By the end of the night he was the eventual winner, securing himself a PokerStars spade trophy.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
560,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
|
75,000
43,000
|
43,000 |