Akenhead Takes Singer to Value-Town
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While the rest of the tournament turtles and tries to eke ino the money, the deep-stacked play continues on Red 374. David Singer opened for 6,500 and was called only by big blind James Akenhead. Akenhead checked and called a bet of 10,000 on a flop of 
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Both players then checked the 
turn. That prompted Akenhead to fire out 26,500 on the river. Singer gave the matter about thirty seconds of thought before calling. It was the wrong decision. Akenhead showed 
for two pair, aces and eights. He collected the pot to climb to about 190,000 while Singer, who started the day as one of the chip leaders, is down to about 120,000.