Jason Riley Rockets Into Second Place After Massive Hand

Photo: Jason Riley (left) and Matthew Johnson (right)

Jason Riley raises to 50,000 in middle position and gets calls from Matthew Johnson in the hijack and Mingrui Cen in the small blind.

The flop comes and after a check from Cen, Riley bets 80,000. Johnson calls, and Cen check-raises to 220,000. Both opponents call and the pot is huge already.

It grows further on the turn as after another check from Cen, Riley bets again, this time for 350,000, leaving himself 75,000 behind. Johnson calls and Cen goes into the tank.

After using a couple of time banks, he folds his hand leaving the pot heads-up.

The completes the board and Riley moves in his last 75,000. Johnson shrug-calls to see that he lost on the river.

Riley shows for a flopped top pair, top kicker that turned top two pair, and then improved to the nut flush on the river.

Johnson claims that he had a set as the huge pot is pushed to Riley, moving him solidly into second place behind Timothy Chung.

Jason Riley – 1,600,000 (80 bb)
Matthew Johnson – 580,000 (29 bb)
Mingrui Cen – 970,000 (48 bb)