Good Flop for Chan
After Jean-Robert Bellande straddled for $1,600, Phil Ivey raised to $4,000 and Matthew Kirk called from the hijack. Antonio Esfandiari did the same from the cutoff, and then Johnny Chan three-bet to $19,000 from the button. The blind and Bellande all folded, and then the other three players all called to see a flop of 
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Action checked to Chan, and he wasted little time in firing out $75,000. It did the trick as all three of his opponents folded. With that, Chan increased his stack to $400,000.