Bansal Battles Back
While it looked as though the momentum was with the Finn a massive pot played out between the two that saw Uday Bansal regain a commanding lead.
It all started with a raise, as is often the case, with Antti Halme making it 180,000 to go on the button. Bansal responded with a re-raise to 450,000 and after thinking it over Halme made the call to grow the pot to 920,000.
Bansal led out for 500,000 on the 
flop and after several seconds of thinking Halme coolly slid in the call to swell the pot to over 1.9 million.
The 
turn saw Bansal fire again, making it 800,000 and the Finn stacked up a sizable tower of red 25k chips and slid in the call once more to see the pot grow to 3.4 million.
The 
river completed the hand and now Bansal slowed down the action and checked. Halme reached for chips and counted out three stacks of reds before announcing a bet of 3 million.
Bansal thought it over, but not for all that long before announcing call. Halme turned over 
for a rivered two pair, but this was not enough to beat Bansal’s 
flopped two pairs and the Finnish player took a big hit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
14,420,000 | |
|
3,400,000 |