How About River Bennani?
Just before the break, Daniel Makowsky opened with a raise to 70,000 from the button, and Rami Boukai folded from the small blind. "What do you have?" asked Najib Bennani of Makowsky from the big blind. A wordless grin was all the response he got. He made the call.
The flop was
. Bennani bet the pot, leaving himself just 12,000 behind. Makowsky thought a moment, then reraised to put Bennani all in.Bennani showed
, and Makowsky 
. The turn was the 
, and Makowsky was ahead with kings and nines. But the river was the 
, giving Bennani a full house and the pot. "How much did that card cost me?!" asked Cornel Cimpan good-naturedly. He's now the table's short stack (by just a tad).
Bennani doubles up once again, and now is right back in the thick of things with 464,000. Meanwhile, Makowsky slips to 662,000.