Marais Raise Works
Level 23
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
It folded around to Philip Hammerling who raised to 44,000 from the small blind, and Jean Luc Marais called from the BB. The flop came . Hammerling pushed out a bet of 33,000, and Marais called. The turn was the , and Hammerling kept hammering, this time betting 86,000.
But Marais hit back, announcing immediately he was raising all in with the 415,000 or so he had left. Hammerling thought for a full minute, then let it go.
Hammerling still has about 1.2 million, currently second behind Griffin. Meanwhile, Marais chips up to 595,000.