Ausmus Gets Check-Raisey
Level 25
: 20,000/40,000, 4,000 ante
Under the gun, Bryan Leskowitz opened to 80,000 with , and Jeremy Ausmus defended his big blind to see a heads-up flop with .
It came , giving Leskowitz four clubs. When Ausmus checked, he continued out with 125,000. Ausmus had just king-high, but he stuck in a check-raise to 300,000, drawing a puzzled look from Leskowitz. The bluff worked; Leskowitz released his draw, slipping down to about 1.1 million.