From a stack of about 3K, Mr Tony 'Tikay' 'Face of UK Poker' 'Old man' 'The Rock' Kendall has managed to amass a less poultry 15K.
UTG he looks down at
and decides to limp intending to call a shove or shove over a raise. He gets neither and instead sees four callers to the flop.
The flop is
- floptastic for the Old Man of Derbyshire.
Not sure how to extract the most value out of the hand, tikay checks, and one player puts in a small bet that he calls.
The turn is a blank and the action is the same as the flop.
The river is a Royal
, giving tikay the absolute stonking, stone-cold, rock-tight nuts. He leads out for a small amount, praying for a raise. However, he gets the one caller who shows
- so was there any way he could have extracted more value from the hand?
Then an orbit later he's UTG with
and a stack of 7K. He doesn't want lots of callers this time, so he leads out for about 5xBB. He gets one caller and the flop is a pleasant
. A bet gets the other player to re-raise putting tikay all-in. He obliges with the call and is nicely ahead of
. No queen on the turn or river and tikay now has about. His largest stack since c1947.
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