Jeremiah Smith Earning a Lot
A player under the gun opened the action with a raise to 1,500. Smith and two other players made the call, and the four of them went to the flop.
It rolled out , and the initial raiser continued out with a bet of 4,000. The play was on Jeremiah Smith, and he bumped it up to 12,000, enough to force out the other two men in the hand. The under-the-gun player came back over the top, moving all in for approximately 40,000. Smith made the call, and the hands were turned up.
Jeremiah Smith had flopped a set with his , and had captured the lead against his opponent's . The player needed to catch one of his jacks or complete his open-ended straight draw to stay alive. The turn and river came , though, and Smith's full house was the winner. He dragged in a nice chunk of chips, eliminated a player, and has moved up to 140,000, starting the day off in the right direction.