Chris Limo Moves All in Blind Again -- But Runs Into Yousef Saleh's Kings

Photo:  Yousef Saleh builds a big stack early thanks to the antics of Chris Limo.

Immediately after doubling up after moving all in blind, Chris Limo puts out his entire stack of chips (14,200) as a bet as the dealer is dealing the next hand.

Jeff Blenkarn asks from middle position, “You’re going all in again?”

Limo happily responds, “Yeah, I’m all in blind.”

Technically, it would be ruled as Limo acting out of turn, so he would be required to raise all in unless the action changed with a raise ahead of him. Knowing this, Blenkarn limps from middle position for 100, giving himself a cheap option to see how the rest of the players react.

Action folds to Limo in the cutoff, and he officially moves all in for 14,200.

Limo smiles and says, “I’m the best at moving all in blind.”

The player on his left, who Limo doubled thru on the previous hand, calls once again from the button. The small blind folds, and Yousef Saleh three-bets all in from the big blind for more than 50,000.

Blenkarn quickly folds, and the player on the button calls all in for about 22,000. All three players turn over their cards, and here they are in descending order of chip counts:

Yousef Saleh:  
Button:  
Chris Limo:  

The board comes — Limo pairs his nine on the flop to pick up some outs, but improves no further. The pocket kings hold up for Saleh to win the entire pot, eliminating both Limo and the player on the button. (The player on the button went an unfortunate 0-for-2 against Limo’s blind shoves.)

Yousef Saleh  –  95,000  (950 bb)

Saleh is off to an excellent start, as he now has more than triple the starting stack before the first break. As for Limo, we certainly expect him to re-enter and try again with a starting stack of 30,000.