Takemi Munakata Doubles Thru Shinji Ueda; Ueda Out 25th

Sep 15, 2019

Takemi Munakata is all in from the big blind for 144,000 with Diamond 5Club 5, and he needs to improve to stay alive against the Spade 9Diamond 9 of Shinji Ueda in the cutoff.

The board comes Club 9Spade 8Heart 6Diamond 3Heart 7 — Ueda flops a set of nines, but Munakata dramatically rivers a nine-high straight to win the pot and double up in chips.

Takemi Munakata  –  306,000  (26 bb)
Shinji Ueda  –  35,000  (3 bb)

A few minutes later, Ueda is eliminated in 25th place.

Shinji Ueda  –  Eliminated

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