Double Knockout Level 2

Even though all our players are extremely deep stacked, sometimes there is just no way to get away from a big hand.

In the middle of Level 2, we saw three players go to a rainbow flop of 10, A, 9. The pre-flop raiser led into the other players with a half pot bet of 1K. Lyle (Brick, NJ) smooth called in middle position, only to be raised to 4.5K from a younger player on the button.

The initial bettor flat called and the decision was up to Lyle. He bumped it up to 11K which sent the late position player into the tank. He thought about his options for a minute and decided to shove all in for his remaining 25K~. The initial bettor then also went all in!

Lyle having both of the players covered, called and showed 99, for a flopped set of 9's. The initial better tabled AsKs and the younger player on the button showed A10, for a disappointed two pair.

The turn and river blanked out and Lyle took in nearly 130K in chips and the other two players were eliminated.

Lyle is certainly out in front as the the early going chip leader.