POY Contender Kyle Kitagawa Takes a Pot
Dec 5, 2021
The player in the hijack limps for 200, WPTDeepStacks champion Kyle Kitagawa raises from the small blind to 800, and the hijack calls.
The flop comes 
, Kitagawa bets 700, and the hijack calls.
The turn card is the 
, Kitagawa bets 2,000, and the hijack folds. Kitagawa takes the pot.
Kyle Kitagawa – 38,000 (190 bb)
Kitagawa is in the running for the WPTDeepStacks North American Player of the Year title, which will be decided during this event. Kitagawa is eighth on the leaderboard with 1,100 POY points, just 300 points behind POY leader Albert Knafo.
Everyone who cashes will earn at least 50 POY points, and a victory will be worth 1,200 POY points, so it’s still a wide open race.
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