The flop is and both players check, the turn is the and again both players check. The river is the and Graham bets the pot of 500,000 and Lunkin makes the fold.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 40 - $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha
Day: 3
Event Info
The flop is and both players check, the turn is the and again both players check. The river is the and Graham bets the pot of 500,000 and Lunkin makes the fold.
They saw a flop of and both players checked. The turn brought the and Lunkin checked but this time Graham fired out a bet of 280,000. Lunkin deliberately cut out calling chips and slid them into the middle.
The river landed the and after another check from Lunkin, Graham made it 750,000 to go. Lunkin quickly called but couldn't better the of Graham for the queen-high straight. Lunkin reluctantly handed over the chips and the chip lead in a massive swing.
The flop landed and Lunkin checked to Graham who fired 275,000. Lunkin made the call.
The turn was the and Lunkin checked to Graham who released a second barrel worth 525,000. It was enough to take it down as Lunkin tossed his cards into the muck.
Graham check-calls 200,000 from Lunkin.
Graham checks again, Lunkin bets 400,000 this time and Graham calls a second time.
Graham checks a third time, Lunkin bets 1,000,000 and Graham folds.
First crucial pot goes to Lunkin.
Level: 28
Blinds: 50,000/100,000
Ante: 0
Matt Graham -- 4,500,000
Vitaly Lunkin -- 4,350,000
It's the classic match up. USA vs Russia.
Or as I like to call it. Rocky IV.
NB: Vitaly has not declared that Matt Graham's 'Chin is made of iron!' yet.
Matt Graham raises to 200,000 and Van Marcus reraises pot and Graham instantly sets him back in.
Graham:
Marcus:
The board is and Graham's trip aces to finally get us heads up.
The flop came down and Graham checked to Lunkin who tossed out 100,000. Graham made the call.
The turn brought the and this time Graham led out for 360,000 with Lunkin snap-calling.
The river was a repeat and both players check. Graham tabled for a straight for the best hand as he is now very close to the tournament chip lead.