Pay That Man His Money
We've got a lot of action here already in the after-dinner session. This one was a battle of the blinds where Mehdi Senhaji open-shoved from the small blind with . Big blind Kaveh Payman was getting a bit shallow in the stack, and he made the call for 87,000, all in and at risk of elimination. The news wasn't good for him as he sheepishly tabled the very dominated .
The flop brought a good sweat as Payman picked up an open-ender for the double up. The turn was a blank, though, but the river was just what the doctor ordered. A king-high straight is good enough for Payman, and he's found his come-from-behind double up to stay alive in this thing.
Now it's Senhaji with some work to do.