Smith Doubles with Top Set Over Ramdin's Middle Set
A huge hand early on at the Bounty Shootout just occurred. It began when John Smith raised to 600, Jonathan Duhamel called, and Victor Ramdin reraised to 2,650. Action folded back to Smith and he repopped it to 7,100. Duhamel wisely got out of the way while Ramdin made the call.
When the flop came down , Smith led out for 8,700, Ramdin called, and the peeled off on the turn. At this point, Smith bet 17,500, Ramdin moved all in, and Smith snap-called for a total of 33,950.
Smith:
Ramdin:
Ramdin had flopped middle set but ran it straight in to Smith's top set, leaving him looking for the on the river to eliminate his opponent. Unfortunately for him, the river was the and Smith doubled to nearly 100,000 while Ramdin was left with less than 500.