Hellmuth Doubles Through Akenhead
Phil Hellmuth limped in from the cutoff, James Akenhead completed from the small blind before Julio Marines raised it to 33,000 in the big blind. Both Hellmuth and Akenhead made the call to see a flop of .
Action checked around and the hit the turn. Akenhead fired out a bet of 130,000 forcing a fold from Marines but Hellmuth responded by moving all in. Akenhead made the pot-committed call.
Hellmuth:
Akenhead:
Akenhead was left with just a straight draw as Hellmuth showed a superior flush draw to go with his straight draw and two pair. The river was the and Hellmuth made his straight to double up to 430,000 with Akenhead down to just 65,000.