Rheem Binks His Set
Chino Rheem was not happy to be snap-called all in by the player on his left. The size of Rheem's raise had been to 3,925 (with no rebuy lammers left behind) after an opening raise was re-raised all in by a different player to 1,575. Rheem knew his was in bad shape and he was right. The short stack had , but the player who called Rheem's raise -- and had Rheem covered -- showed down .
That was no problem for Rheem after an eight-high flop, , gave him a set of eights. The turn and river were both face cards, but they were and , not enough to overtake Rheem's set. He now has about 10,000 chips.