Salsberg Doubles Through Mackoff to End Day
Two hands before the day was over, Matt Salsberg took a giant pot off of Jonas Mackoff. Here's how it happened. Mackoff raised in middle position to 1,600, and the small blind called. Salsburg was in the big blind, and he raised to 4,500. Mackoff decided to reraise to 10,700, getting a fold from the small blind. Salsberg wasn't going anywhere though, and he made the call.
The flop came out 
, and Salsberg put out a smallish bet of 7,000. Mackoff thought for about 20 seconds before tossing in a bet of 25,000, which was just under Salsberg's total stack. Salsberg quickly moved all in, and Mackoff reluctantly called. The cards were flipped, and Mackoff was all but drawing dead.
Mackoff: 
Salsberg: 
Salsberg flopped top set, and all Mackoff could get was runner runner straight on board to chop the pot. The 
on the turn ended any hope of that, and Salsberg won the big pot. The meaningless river came the 
, and Mackoff was crippled down to just over 10,000.