Arends Vaults to the Chip Lead

Adam Lamers

Level 23 : Blinds 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante

Jans Arends raised to 800,000 on the button with J?9? and was called by Adrian Mateos in the small blind with K?10? and Cary Katz in the big blind with 10?7?. The flop came J?J?9? to give Arends a full house and the action checked around to the 2? on the turn.

Mateos led out with a bet of 1,900,000 which got Katz out of the way. Arends just called and the Q? rolled off on the river to give Mateos a straight which was no good. Mateos announced a bet of 2,000,000 and Arends reached back for a raise to 12,000,000.

Mateos squirmed in his seat and reached for his time banks, using all six of them before finally sticking in some chips to call. Arends turned over his full house and Mateos was cut down to the short stack.