Return of the Mac
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
We only caught the hand from the turn, but we suspect that that's when it got really fun anyway.
Three players were still in and the board read . Kevin MacPhee bet out 4,000 which got rid of one of his opponents. The other raised to 11,000, though, and MacPhee called.
Heads up to the river, and this time it was MacPhee's opponent who did the betting - a very hefty 18,500. MacPhee had barely 10,000 more than that in his stack but flat-called nevertheless, and was swiftly rewarded when his opponent showed , nowhere near the for trips in MacPhee's hand.
"Nice bluff catcher," said a tablemate in broken English, but the sentiment was clear. MacPhee is back up to around 80,000 now.