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Introducing: Toni Hiltunen
Sometimes it just works out that when certain players are involved in hands, there's a big pot or an all-in on another table which steals their thunder, or they never get to showdown and their stories fall by the wayside. I think it's time for a Toni Hiltunen feature, seeing as I don't think I've seen him play a single hand all day. He's dwindled slowly from 300,000 to around 250,000 which does support the theory that he's not a big yo-yoer...but he just did get his stack at risk like so:
Raising preflop to 23,000, he received a full-on John Juanda stare and a call on the button, followed by another from Stanislav Alekhin on the small blind.
Flop: . Checked to Hiltunen, who bet 125,000 -- almost exactly half of his remaining chips. This gave a clear commitment signal, at which Juanda passed, but Alekhin really thought about it. Eventually he gave Hiltunen the benefit of a pass.
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. Checked to Hiltunen, who bet 125,000 -- almost exactly half of his remaining chips. This gave a clear commitment signal, at which Juanda passed, but Alekhin really thought about it. Eventually he gave Hiltunen the benefit of a pass.