Rich Alsup limped the button and Derek Dempster checked his option.
The flop fell and Dempster led for 150,000. Alsup raised to 450,000 and Dempster fired back, making it 850,000. Alsup called and the turn was the . Dempster checked and folded after Alsup made it 450,000.
With that hand, Alsup has now taken a stranglehold on the heads-up match.
Chip leader Rich Alsup has spent the last 15 minutes on a heater, opening liberally and three-betting regularly on the way up and over the 3 million chip mark and building on his lead without much in the way of showdown.
Hamid Feiz made it 200,000 from the cutoff and Rich Alsup shoved the small blind.
Feiz called with and was miles ahead of Alsup's .
The flop changed little, making them both aces up. The turn was a brick, but the river was a miracle for Alsup, making him a boat and doubling him up through Feiz.
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and Dempster led for 150,000. Alsup raised to 450,000 and Dempster fired back, making it 850,000. Alsup called and the turn was the 
. Dempster checked and folded after Alsup made it 450,000.
flop and held through the 
turn and 
river to send Cacho packing third.
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