Kid Poker Keeps Scrappin'
Daniel Negreanu has been nursing a short stack for quite a while now, pushing all in from time to time but not getting callers.
Just now came a hand in which Eric Kesselman opened for 12,000 from the under the gun, and Negreanu reraised all in for about 44,000. It folded back around to Kesselman who thought a bit, then called.
Both players were drawing one, and they each tabled the four they were keeping: for Kesselman, and for Negreanu.
Kesselman turned his new card over first, a , giving him a pair. "Paint!" said Negreanu, and he got his wish, turning over a . Negreanu chips back up close to 100,000, while Kesselman now has 152,000.