Hale Wins Huge Hand To Bust Guillen and Kim

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Action folded to one of the largest stack in the room, Jhana Hale, in the cutoff seat and he raised to 1,300. Team PokerStars Pro Angel Guillen flat-called on the button and then action fell on Dong Kyu Kim in the small blind. Kim reraised all in for 14,850 and the big blind folded. Hale thought for a minute and then made the call of Kim's shove. Guillen had other things in mind though and reraised all in for 47,500.

Hale was now faced with a big decision for around half of his chips. He had already invested 14,850 into the hand and was faced with calling another 32,650. After a couple minutes of thought, Hale made the call to have both Guillen and Kim on the ropes. Here's what we saw.

Hale: {10-Hearts} {10-Clubs}
Guillen: {A-Diamonds} {K-Hearts}
Kim: {A-Spades} {9-Clubs}

The flop came down {A-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {2-Clubs} and both Guillen and Kim smacked their ace. Unfortunately, the ace was accompanied by a ten and Hale held the lead with a set. The turn was the {9-Diamonds} and that left Guillen drawing dead while Kim could still hit the case ace to stay alive.

Guillen was already up and out of his seat when the {5-Clubs} hit the river to send Kim out the door behind him. Hale collected the pot — and a massive one at that — to move his stack to a commanding lead with 150,000 in chips.