Bowker Shooting Straight

We picked up the action on the flop in a three-way pot. The small blind and the gentleman in middle position — who we think was the preflop raiser — checked to Kyle Bowker. The pro from upstate New York put out a bet of 1,150, but the small blind check-raised to 4,100 total. That folded the monkey in the middle, but Bowker quickly called to see the next card.

It was the {J-Diamonds} , and it went check-check to the {2-Hearts} river. Now the small blind stacked together another bet and made it 6,225 to go. Bowker called very quickly once again, and the small blind tabled {8-Diamonds} {3-Spades} for two pair. But Bowker's {6-Hearts} {9-Hearts} had flushed the river, and that pot gives him another chip boost up to about 64,000.