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Daniele Mazzia With a Reason To Smile
In what has become the recent trend, Daniele Mazzia opened for a raise all in. Action folded to Davidi Kitai and he made the call. Mazzia winced, knowing he was likely behind and sure enough he was. The players showed:
Kitai:
Mazzia:
The flop came leaving Kitai in the lead but giving Mazzia an open ended straight draw. The on the turn helped neither player but Mazzia supporters erupted when the river fell the . He made the straight to put Kitai's otherwise dominating hand in 2nd place. Mazzia, who was down to just 80,000 chips not long ago, is now sitting on a workable stack of 671,000.