$1,650 WPO Championship (Re-Entry)
Level 8: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Entries: 132

There was a middle position raise and the small blind called. It was on John Holley in the big blind and he defended. The trio saw a flop of and they checked it down. The turn was the and the small blind lead for 2,500. Holley called as did the middle-position player. The river was the and they checked it down before tabling their hands.

Holley: for a pair of aces
Small blind: for a pair of twos
Middle position raiser: for five-high

Holley’s pair of aces was best.

“You raised with five-high?” he said playfully to the middle position player.

“I was trying to get something going,” the middle position player said.

“You would have had me all screwed up if you’d hit,” Holley said referencing the players’ draw on the turn.

The hand helped grow Holley’s stack which now sits at roughly 90,000,