Eights Loses to Aces

donpeters

Level 1 : 500/500, 0 ante

Winfred Yu raised to 1,500 from the cutoff seat. Masa Kagawa reraised to 4,500. Yu came back with a four-bet to 14,500 and Kagawa called.

The flop came down {K-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} and both players checked after some aggressive action preflop. The turn brought the {J-Hearts} and Yu checked before Kagawa bet 12,000. Yu made the call. The river card was the {K-Spades} and both players checked.

Kagawa showed the {8-Diamonds} {8-Clubs} , but lost to Yu's {A-Diamonds} {A-Spades} . He dropped back to 66,000 while Yu moved his stack up to 135,000 in chips.