Sears Check-Raise Wins Him a Pot
Level 19
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
From the cutoff, Martin Finger opened and both Nikolai Sears (small blind) and Benjamin Pollak (big blind) called.
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and the action checked to Finger. After a brief pause, Finger made it 20,000 to play and it looked like that would be the end of the hand. That was until Sears sprung into life with a check-raise to 48,000. Sears bet was too much for Pollak to call, and Finger folded soon after.