Van Boxtel Drops Some

As we walked by, we dropped in on a three-way pot with Raúl Van Boxtel checking from the blinds. Clyde Tjauw Foe checked as well and Joris Ruys took the betting lead placing 1,100 in front of him on a flop of . Van Boxtel called, Tjauw Foe folded.

The hit the turn and Van Boxtel lead out for 1,200. Ruys called, and he called the 2,175-bet that followed on the river as well. Van Boxtel showed for the flopped top two, Ruys mucked.

While Van Boxtel was stacking his chips, he leaned back and told us about a hand he had lost earlier where he dropped a sizable part of his stack.

The player under the gun raised to 300 and one player called before Van Boxtel over called from the cutoff. The button queezed to 1,500 and just Van Boxtel called.

Van Boxtel check-called 1,700 on , 3,600 on the turn and 11,000 on the river. His neighbor showed for the rivered straight and Van Boxtel mucked.