McLean Hits Blogging Desk for Advice
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During the break, avid PokerNews follower came over to the blogging desk to discuss some strategy for the final level.
One of our PokerNews bloggers joked that he would like to see McLean open the button with 
, get three-bet by the big blind to say 5,700, and then have McLean respond with an awkward four-bet of roughly 9,575. With the big blind having only 25,000 to start the hand, he would make a tough stack-size-orientated fold with a holding such as 
.
So as play kicked off for the level and Andras Kovacs opened the cutoff to 2,000, we indeed found McLean making it 4,500 from the button.
The blinds passed, and after a slight pause, Kovacs made the call to see a 
flop fall.
Kovacs checked and McLean dropped in a 6,000-chip continuation-bet to force a near instant fold from Kovacs.
McLean flashed his 
for top pair as he collected the pot to move to around the 60,000-chip mark.
Although it wasn't the we were hoping for, it was close enough, and at least McLean won the pot!