Normand Soars up the Chip Counts

Kirk Brown

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

PokerNews caught up with Derek Normand who recounted how he doubled up the previous level against Ren Lin.

Normand had opened to 40,000 and was three-bet to 120,000 by Lin, which he called to see the flop of Q?9?5?.

Normand check-called a bet of 80,000 and they went to the turn 10? where Lin fired again for 140,000. Normand then shoved all in for his remaining 580,000 and Lin made the call to put him at risk .

Derek Normand: J?J?
Ren Lin: A?Q?

Normand's jacks were well behind Lin's pair of queens, but the river saved him as the 8? smacked down to give him a straight to stay alive with a big double-up. He has since been on a hot streak and is now sitting at close to 2,000,000 in chips while LIn unfortunately was eliminated.