A Few Hands With Sam Chartier

Canadian Sam Chartier, who has more than $2.8 million in cashes and a collection of big scores from across the globe, is seated at Table 111 and appears to be off to a fantastic start. He's already turned his starting stack of 50,000 into more than 70,000, and we kept an eye on him for a bit to see how he was going about his business.

In the first hand we saw, Chartier was part of a three-way checkdown on a board of . Someone showed , prompting Chartier to muck, but another player won with .

A few hands later, Chartier opened for a raise to 400 in middle position and everyone folded, with the big blind showing . Chartier showed .

A bit after that, a player opened to 300 in early position and Chartier made it 1,000 to go. His opponent flashed a card we didn't see and folded.

When Chartier was back in middle position, he raised to 400 again and saw his opponent on the immediate left three-bet to 2,000. Chartier called. He check-called 1,000 on the flop, and the turn was a . Chartier checked again, this time folding to a bet of 5,000. His opponent showed .