Callum Roque Makes a Huge Hero-Call on Santiago Plante

May 13, 2024

Photo: Callum Roque

In a blind versus blind battle, Santiago Plante bets 8,000 on a flop of Heart 2Spade ASpade J and Callum Roque calls.

The turn is the Heart 6 and Plante bets 38,000. Roque again calls and the Diamond K falls on the river.

Plante then pushes forward 101,000, leaving himself just 1,000 behind. Roque tanks for a minute before calling. Plante shows Heart 4Spade 3 for a bluff, while Roque turns over Diamond JHeart 10 for a pair of jacks to win the big pot.

The next hand at this table, Plante is all in from the small blind as Roque raises to 12,000 on the button. Patrick Pochyla calls under the gun, Jean-Pascal Gauthier calls in the hijack, and Karim Abdelhami calls in the cutoff.

The flop comes Club 9Spade 8Heart 6 and Roque bets 12,000. All three opponents call.

The Club K turn is checked and the river is the Club A. Gauthier then bets 75,000, forcing folds from the table as he shows Heart QHeart 10 for a bluff.

Plante turns over Heart 8Spade 3 for a pair of eights to more than double up.

Santiago Plante- 10,000 (2 bb)
Callum Roque- 350,000 (70 bb)
Jean-Pascal Gauthier, 320,000 (64 bb)
Patrick Pochyla- 105,000 (21 bb)

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