A Bounce-Back for Brown
Chad Brown lost a chunk in the early going in a hand to Ronnie Bardah, but has just claimed some chips back, mostly from Sorel Mizzi.
Bardah opened from the button, Mizzi three-bet from the small blind, then Brown made it four to go from the big blind. Both Bardah and Mizzi called.
The flop came . Mizzi led with a bet, and when Brown raised Bardah went into the tank. "How much you got?" he asked Brown, who replied "a lot" and held up his short stack of pink (5,000) chips. Brown was in fact quite short-stacked, relatively speaking, but was indicating he had enough to play out the hand.
Bardah finally folded and Mizzi called. The turn was the . Mizzi checked, Brown bet, Mizzi check-raised, and after a pause Brown called. Brown again called a bet by Mizzi after the river.
Mizzi then tabled and Brown , and Brown won the sizable pot. Bardah shook his head afterwards, indicating he'd folded what would've been a winner.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sorel Mizzi |
245,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
Chad Brown |
135,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Ronnie Bardah |
55,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
|