Hands #27-31: Raises and Folds

Hand #27: Justin Thurlow opened the cutoff and Yaser Al-Keliddar defended in the big. It fell and Al-Keliddar check-called the flop, check-called 40,000 on the turn and check-folded on the river, leaving Thurlow to scoop.

Hand #28: Al-Keliddar raised from the small blind. Juha Helppi, in the big blind folded.

Hand #29: Mike Schneider raised from the cutoff. Thurlow, in the big blind, called.

A flop of was dealt and checked around to the turn. Thurlow checked. Schneider bet. Thurlow raised. Schneider called. The river filled up the board. Thurlow bet. His opponent called. Thurlow tabled to win the pot and Schnider mucked.

Hand #30: Helppi raised from the button. He got no action.

Player	Chips	Progress
Justin Thurlow	1,100,000 175,000	175,000
Yaser Al-Keliddar	980,000 320,000	320,000

Andrew Yip	800,000 400,000	400,000
Juha Helppi	290,000 60,000	60,000

Mike Schneider (MN)	115,000 95,000	95,000

Tags: Juha Helppi Justin Thurlow Mike Schneider