Kronwitter Orders Some Ducks

[user66118]

Jonas Kronwitter has been mumbling to himself for a couple orbits now, unable to find anything close to a poker hand with which to get his short stack into the pot. In the first of two blind hands we picked up, the table folded around to Brian Green who moved all in from the small blind, putting Kronwitter to another decision in the big. Kronwitter squeezed his cards slowly, then angrily open-mucked {7-Hearts} {2-Clubs} , turning back to complain once again to his railbird friends.

On the next hand, the table again folded around to the blinds, and this time Kronwitter shoved his 96,000-chip stack into the middle. In the big blind, Victorino Torres counted out the chips and tanked it up for a minute or two before making the call with the covering stack. With Kronwitter now at risk (and finally smiling, oddly), the cards were turned up:

Kronwitter: {A-Clubs} {2-Diamonds}
Torres: {4-Clubs} {4-Diamonds}

The flop brought a huge, "YES!" from Kronwitter as it rolled out {7-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {2-Spades} , vaulting him into the lead with trips. The turn {9-Spades} and river {6-Hearts} filled out the board, and that spells a much-needed double up for the German pro. He's back over the 200,000-chip mark but still the short stack in the room.