Ahmadness
It's been a bit of a roller coaster for Ahmad Abghari since our final went four-handed.
He raised under the gun and called a reraise from Terrence Chan on the button to see a flop. Abghari bet out and then called a raise from Chan. Abghari check-called on the turn and again on the river, but promptly mucked when Chan turned over , leaving himself on 160,000. (By the by, Chan had won a fairly big pot off of Georgios Kapalas just before this with pocket jacks - this pot put Chan firmly back in the lead on a dominating 1.25 million.)
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The next hand, it folded around to Matt Matros in the small blind who raised. Abghari called in the big blind and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Matros bet out and Abghari raised; Matros called and they saw a turn.
Turn:
Matros now merely check-called the bet from Abghari, so they saw a river.
River:
Matros bet out, and Abghari called all in. To showdown.
Matros: for ace high
Abghari: for a straight
Abghari doubled to around 300,000. He took another chunk out of Matros the next hand as well, when his pocket jacks presumably held up on the board, as Matros mucked.
Abghari is right now sitting on around 430,000.