Bakes Getting Defensive
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Looking to defend his title in this event, David Baker is making a hell of a run through this Day 2.
In the last hand, Baker opened to 18,000 before Nick Schulman three-bet to 56,000. Schulman, it should be noted, won this event the year before "Bakes" did, so we had the previous two champions mixing it up in this pot. Baker called the three-bet quickly, and he took one card. Schulman stood pat.
Bakes must have liked what he saw, because he led right out into the pot with a big bet of 114,500. Schulman would spend the next couple minutes in the tank, clearly pained by a tough decision. He took his hat off and rubbed his forehead as he pondered, then checked and double-checked his cards a few more times. Eventually, he waved the white flag and spun his cards into the muck.
After that exchange, Baker is atop the pack once again with 550,000 chips and his sights set on a (nearly) unprecedented repeat.