Jesus Be the Nuts
Jesus Sanchez, Mikhail Petrov, and Nicholas Galtos took a flop of . Sanchez checked, Petrov fired 8,000, and Galtos called. Sanchez reached for a handful of blue T5,000 chips, added five red T1,000 chips, and tossed out a raise to 30,000. Both Petrov and Galtos called.
The turn was the , and Sanchez grabbed two towers of chips, one purple (T500) the other red, topped them off with five blue chips, and slid forward 55,000. Petrov tanked for 30 seconds, folded, and the action was on Galtos.
"How much do you have behind?" the Australia asked, lifting off his sunglasses.
"About fifty-seven," Sanchez answered after quickly counting. "Fifty-eight."
"I'm all in," Galtos announced.
"Call!" Sanchez blurted immediately.
Sanchez:
Galtos:
Sanchez flopped the nuts, but after turning a set of jacks, Galtos wasn't drawing dead. The bricked on the river however, and Sanchez more than doubled to 330,000 chips.
Galtos and Petrov slipped to 140,000 and 150,000 respectively.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jesus Sanchez |
330,000
181,400
|
181,400 |
Nicholas Galtos |
150,000
-114,200
|
-114,200 |
Mikhail Petrov |
140,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |