Yuichiro Harada Doubles Thru Kazuhiko Yotsushika

Photo:  Yuichiro Harada

Three players make it to the turn with the board showing and about 210K already in the pot.

Yuichiro Harada moves all in from the hijack for 272,000. Kazuhiko Yotsushika tanks for a long time in the cutoff before he calls, and then Tsugunari Toma lets out a deep breath as he rechecks his cards. Toma thinks for a moment before he folds, saying he had ace-ten with the ace of spades.

Harada shows for a pair of nines with a spade flush draw and a gutshot straight draw, and he’s actually ahead of Yotsushika, who turns over for a higher spade flush draw.

The river card is the , and Harada wins the pot with his pair of nines to more than double up in chips.

Yuichiro Harada  –  755,000  (76 bb)
Tsugunari Toma  –  265,000  (27 bb)
Kazuhiko Yotsushika  –  405,000  (41 bb)