The previous hand had seen four players limp in, then check down all of the way to the river where Cornel Cimpan fired out a pot-sized bet, causing all to fold. Cimpan turned over a bluff as he dragged the pot.
Then Najib Bennani opened with a raise to 60,000 from UTG, and Cimpan called behind. "Maybe I can bluff this one, too," he said.
The two of them checked the flop and turn. When the river card was dealt, the board showed
. Bennani checked, then Cimpan checked behind. Benanni turned over
-- he'd turned a wheel, and might've been trying to get Cimpan to bet there on the end as he had done before. Cimpan mucked, saying he had 9-9-x-x as he did.Cimpan has about 520,000 right now, while Bennani has a little more with 531,000.
and Cimpan 
. The board came 
, and all of those orange and pink chips retreated back to where they had started the hand.
. Bennani bet the pot, leaving himself just 12,000 behind. Makowsky thought a moment, then reraised to put Bennani all in.
, and Makowsky 
. The turn was the 
, and Makowsky was ahead with kings and nines. But the river was the 
, giving Bennani a full house and the pot. ![[user66118]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
for second pair, while Bennani was in good shape to double up with 
. When the turn and river came 
and 
, he did just that, sitting now with 296,000.