Matt Stout’s WPT Five Diamond Day 3

I entered Day 3 of the $15k Bellagio Five Diamond WPT event with over 300k at 1200/2400 – good enough to put me in about 12th place out of the remaining 131 players.

I had a pretty wild start to the day, in both good and bad ways.

First, I ran the nut flush into flopped quads on the second hand of play. Fortunately though, I managed to lose the minimum because the kid spent the whole hand trapping me.

Just a couple of hands later I got it all back and then some when I three-bet-called Ralph Perry’s all in four-bet from the cutoff with T♣ T♠ for around 120k total. He had A♦ Q♥, and there was pretty much no sweat to it after the 3♦ T♥ 3♥ flop.

I also busted another player for another ~250k pot just an orbit later. I had A♥ T♦ against his 8♣ 9♣, and we got it in on a T♥ 9♥ 7♦ flop.

Normally I’d be a bit hesitant to stack off such a large pot in this type of event where people have a much tighter range to get it all in than they would online or a smaller tournament, but here’s where doing your research comes into play: I knew he was French!

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