Hartree on Another Heater

Adam Lamers

Level 8 : 300/600, 100 ante

Kyle Hartree's day got off to a good start when he was one of the first ones through the Brasilia Room doors this morning. He felt he was given a good table draw plus he was full of confidence coming off a deep run in the $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER, finishing in 25th place for around $40,000. Little did he know, his day was about to get much better.

Hartree began building his stack within the first couple levels and headed into the first break with around 35,000. When the dinner break arrived, the Canadian poker pro had run up a stack to around 60,000 but his table got a little tougher with the presence of John Racener. After the dinner break, another poker pro in Toby Lewis also joined his table but that wasn't going to spoil Hartree's day.

Just recently, we walked past the table to find that Lewis was missing from his seat and Hartree had heaps of chips in front of him. He explained that he opened with ace-king and Lewis just ripped all in with king-ten suited. The action was back on Hartree who made the call and was in a dominating position. The board ran out clean for Hartree, sending Lewis to the rail, and sending Hartree to the top of the leaderboard, closing in on 100,000 chips.