Kihara Staying Active

Bracelet winner Naoya Kihara is staying active here in the early levels of the tournament. Standing by his table we watched him play four out of five hands.

In one, a player opened from middle position. Kihara called from the cutoff and the player in the small blind also called.

"I know your calling," the opening raiser said to Kihara.

The flop was and action checked around. On the turn, the small blind checked. The opening raiser made a bet of 200 that only Kihara called.

The river was the . The opening raiser bet 500 and Kihara snap called.

"You got it," the raiser said, mucking his hand.

Kihara showed anyways and took the pot with two pair. Kihara moved to over 8,000 chips after the hand.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Naoya Kihara	8,500 4,000	4,000