As Casey Robbins recounted and his tablemates confirmed, he had just moved to a new table when the blinds were 600/1200, and on his first hand he picked up .
An early position player opened to 3,000 and a middle position player called, as did Robbins in the big blind.
The flop of was the prettiest flop a poker player could see. All three players checked to the turn.
The turn saw Robbins check, the early position player bet around 3,500, and Robbins called after the other player folded.
On the river, Robbins put out a bet of 6,000 and his opponent called. His opponent showed for a turned set, but there was no hand in poker that would beat Robbin's royal as he chipped up to over double the starting stack.
With 10,000 in the middle, action was picked up on the turn of a three-way pot with Matt Affleck under the gun.
The flop came out and action was checked around.
The turn came the and the big blind checked once more, as did Affleck and the player from the late position.
The river was a and the big blind led out for 9,000. Affleck thought about it for a few seconds before flicking in the chips for the call. The late-position player folded and the big blind flipped over for trip nines for Affleck to muck.
A player in early position limped before the player next to act raised to 5,400, the action folded to John Horrocks who three-bet to 15,000. It folded back around to the original raiser who made the call.
The dealer fanned a flop of and after the original raiser checked to Horrocks, he threw in 11 yellow chips for a total of 11,000 which forced his opponent to surrender and the dealer shipped the pot his way.
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