2013 PokerStars.com EPT Prague

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2013 PokerStars.com EPT Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
€725,700
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,883,950
Entries
1,007
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Praising the River Check Raise

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

There's something sexy about the river check-raise. Still today you have card rooms in Las Vegas that explicitly mention in the rules on the wall that check-raising is permitted, a relic to the times that check-raising was looked upon as unfriendly and unsportsmanlike. Today it is permitted but you still don't see the move all that often.

With a {6-Spades}{4-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{A-Spades} board on the table, Dominik Nitsche had checked to his opponent. Martin Prager bet 3,300 and Nitsche raised it up to 10,500. There it was, the river check raise! Prager made the call but soon tossed his cards into the muck as Nitsche tabled {J-Spades}{8-Spades} for the flush.

There's only one thing more sexy than the river check-raise and that's the triple crown of check-raising; doing it on every street. Add a limp reraise preflop, do it all as a bluff and pull it off, well you might just make it into the PokerNews poker history books.

Player Chips Progress
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Dominik Nitsche
63,000
21,500
21,500