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We walked past Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck's table to see her sitting with a healthy 34,000 in chips. That's twice as many chips as she had last time by, so we asked her what the deal was.
Maridu three-bet her opponent before the flop, each player putting in 2,200 chips. On a two-spade flop of , Maridu bet another 2,200 on the flop, and her opponent came right along. The fell on the turn, and the rest of the chips got in there. Maridu was working with ace-king for top-top, and her opponent was drawing doubly live with . The river "somehow" bricked off for Maridu, securing her double up to her current stack.
"I was getting it in there whether I hit my ace or not," she told us. "Swear to god. But you don't have to write that." You should know better than that by now, Maridu!