Running Eights Trips Mortensen
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A raise to 3,200 from a player in the cutoff position was met with three callers including Carlos Mortensen on the button and Daniel Negreanu in the small blind.
They saw a flop of 
and action was checked through to Mortensen who fired 10,000 into the middle. Negreanu was the only voice as he made the call.
The turn was the 
and both players checked to see the 
repeat on the river. Negreanu took a cheap shot at the pot with a bet of 8,500 with Mortensen looking him up. Negreanu opened 
for running trips which Mortensen couldn't better as his cards hit the muck.
Negreanu is up to 278,000 with Mortensen slipping to 139,000.