2009 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Atlantic City

$5,150 Circuit Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2009 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Atlantic City

Final Results
Winner
Samuel Chartier
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$322,944
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
208
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
5,000

Check-Raising the Table

We pick up a three-handed pot on the flop, with 1,600 chips already in the middle of the table. The board showed {J-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {5-Hearts}, and action was on Rhett Butler. He checked, and Ylon Schwartz put out a bet of 725. Gary Schoengold was next, and he made the call. Butler followed suit, and all three men went to the turn.

The dealer turned the {9-Spades} on fourth street, and all three men checked. Fifth street was the {3-Diamonds}. Butler checked, Schwartz bet 400, and Schoengold called. Butler had one last decision to make, and he opted to check-raise to a total of 3,100. Schwartz took a minute to ponder before making the call. Not to be outdone, Schoengold matched the bet as well.

"I have a full house," said Butler.

"Let's see it," prompted Schwartz, holding his cards over the muck. Butler obliged, tabling {J-Hearts} {9-Hearts}. It was good; both of his opponents slid their cards back to the dealer, and Rhett Butler raked in a nice pot. He has climbed up close to the 30,000-chip mark. Schwartz, meanwhile, dropped a significant chunk of his stack in that hand; he is all the way down to 6,075.

Tags: Rhett ButlerYlon Schwartz