Championship: Afriat Gets Paid on the River

$3,300+$200 WPT Borgata WPO Championship
$3 Million Guaranteed

Level 34:  Blinds 125,000/250,000/25,000 ante
Total Entries: 1,244
Players Remaining: 3
Average Stack:  12,440,000

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Another battle of the blinds between Eric Afriat (sb) and Zach Gruneberg (bb):

On the flop of Eric bet and Zach called.  Turn was the and Eric bet 750,000; again Zach called.

The river was the and Eric bet “2 million”.  Zach used a Time extension, eventually deciding to call.

Eric tabled pocket 6s for the straight and jumped out of his chair when Zach mucked his hand.

Eric pulled ahead of Zach with ~10 million to Zach’s ~8 million.

Justin Zaki is the chip leader with about 18 million.