Shankar Pillai Doubles Thru Charles Coates

Feb 2, 2017

Shankar Pillai

Shankar Pillai (pictured) raises from the button to 50,000, Charles Coates reraises from the small blind to 137,000, and Pillai calls. Both players check to the turn on a board of Diamond QClub 7Diamond 5Diamond 9, Coates bets 200,000, and Pillai calls.

The river card is the Club A, Coates checks, Pillai moves all in for 561,000, and Coates tanks for about a minute before he calls. Pillai shows Spade 8Heart 6 to win the pot and double up with a turned nine-high straight, and Coates mucks.

Shankar Pillai  –  1,880,000  (78 bb)
Charles Coates  –  2,170,000  (90 bb)

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