Chopping Kostritsyn
Omaha 8/b:
First in from the button, Brian Townsend opened the pot with a raise. Alex Kostritsyn and Daniel Alaei called from their respective blinds, and the three men went off to a flop of . The blinds checked, and Brian Townsend followed up his preflop aggression with a post-flop bet. Kostritsyn called, Alaei made it two bets, and both players called the raise.
The turn came the , and both opponents called another bet from Alaei. They action repeated on the river, and the cards were on their backs:
Arieh: (full house)
Townsend: (sixty-five low)
Kostritsyn: MUCK (nothing very good)
Arieh - 215,000
Townsend - 145,000
Kostritsyn - 180,000