Apr 6, 2025
Photo: LaDarren Banks
LaDarren Banks opens to 8,000 in early position and the player on the button three-bets to 25,000. Banks calls.
The flop comes and Banks announces he’s all in, overbetting to put his opponent to a decision for his remaining 104,000. The player thinks for a while and calls.
Banks shows for top pair, top kicker, pipping his opponent’s
. The turn is the
and the river is the
, giving both players aces up with Banks’s king kicker making the difference in the hand.
LaDarren Banks – 301,500 (101 bb)