Barabas Takes A Big Lead

Yori Epskamp

Level 5 : 300/600, 75 ante

Over at table 13, Hungary's Zoltan Barabas is sitting behind a very impressive stack of 165,000. While sipping on a glass of Chardonnay, Barabas talked us through two big hands that skyrocketed him to the top of the standings.

In the first hand, Barabas opened with the optional from under the gun. A player to his left called and the flop came down . Barabas bet and his opponent called.

The on the turn gave Barabas trip sixes and he bet 4,000. His opponent raised to 11,000 and Barabas called. The on the river completed the Hungarian's full house, and he check-called an all-in shove. His opponent couldn't muster up more than a king and was eliminated.

In the second hand, Barabas raised on the button with and a player defended his big blind. The flop came down and the big blind led out 1,000. Barabas raised to 3,300, the big blind shoved for 25,000 and Barabas called.