Harwood Shining Bright Like a Diamond

Kevin Taylor

Level 16 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

WSOP Circuit grinder Loni Harwood has had herself quite a summer so far. She has already locked up her fifth cash of the summer, and she has two final tables, a 6th in Event #31 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Eight-or-Better, and a 4th in Event #53 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em just last week for over $200,000. Well she's well on her way to making another deep run, as we just saw her win a pot to get up to almost 150,000.

Action started with Loni Harwood raising to 6,000 from the cutoff, and Roberto Aranha was the lone caller from the button. The flop came down , and Harwood c-bet to 6,000. Aranha raised it up to 15,000, and Harwood made the call. Both players checked the on the turn, and the river brought the . Harwood assembled a big bet of 40,000, and slid it in. Aranha spent about 90 seconds in the tank before kicking his hand in, and Harwood took down the pot without a showdown.