Kihara Chips Up; Grundy Gets Short

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Christopher Vitch limped from the small blind and faced a pot-sized raise by Naoya Kihara in the big blind. After verifying the stack size of Kihara, Vitch came along to the A?9?7? flop and checked. Kihara bet the pot and Vitch snap-folded.

"Scared," Kihara said and Jeffrie Rine inquired "scared or skilled" from the other side of the table.

One table over, Ben Grundy bet the pot on the J?10?3?5?K? river to see Taylor Wilson call by sliding forward a stack of T-5,000 chips. Grundy instantly mucked his cards with a lot of force and dropped below 20 blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
John Holley	800,000 285,000	285,000
Christopher Vitch	635,000 5,000	5,000

Taylor Wilson	495,000 145,000	145,000
Dylan Weisman	465,000 -25,000	-25,000

Jeffrie Rine	348,000 128,000	128,000
Vladimir Belekhov	265,000 -115,000	-115,000
Naoya Kihara	257,000 -43,000	-43,000

Dan Heimiller	180,000 -20,000	-20,000

Ben Grundy	150,000 -110,000	-110,000