Casal Chipping Up Aggressively
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Back from the dinner break, one of the larger stacks that we noticed in the Red Section of the Amazon Room belongs to Max Casal. Casal started the day with 245,000 and is up to 565,000 in chips after beating Phil Galfond out of a recent pot. A player opened the pot pre-flop with an early-position raise to 6,000. Casal called that raise, then was the only player to call after Galfond three-bet the button to 20,000. Galfond made a small lead of 13,000 on a flop of 
. Casal check-called that bet, then got a free showdown after both the 
turn and 
river checked through. Casal opened 
for a pair of kings, which was the winning hand.