Gavatin Takes First Meaningful Pot
Matt Vance was in the hijack when he bumped it up to 65,000 with David Baker in the big blind being the only taker.
The flop came: and both players checked through. When the came on the turn, Baker bet 93,000 and Gavatin called.
The river was and Baker made one more bet of 264,000. Vance called and showed for the second nuts, which was good enough to boost him to into the chip lead with 2,153,000, while Baker is left with 2,131,000.