It's a Double Up Party and James Calderaro is Invited
Alexander Kuzmin opened to 60,000, and James Calderaro made the call from the cutoff seat.
The two men took a heads-up flop of , and Kuzmin continued out with a bet of 40,000. Calderaro announced a pot raise to 285,000, committing more than half his remaining stack. When Kuzmin reraised, Calderaro called it off to put himself at risk for 460,000 total. Cards up, gents:
Kuzmin:
Calderaro:
Calderaro would likely need to find a spade in order to stay alive, but the turn was a blank . The river, however, was one of those spades, and the filled in Calderaro's flush to notch his double up.
He's all the way up to 1.095 million now, while Kuzmin is left just 175,000.