As we whittle our field of players down one by one, we move ever closer to tonight’s final table. On table 56 just now we witnessed Darren Critch push Luke Mccomber off a hand, betting aggressively from the get-go and taking it down without a showdown.
The hand began with an early-position limp from Johnny Verhoeven, at which point Darren raised it to 3,000. That was called by Luke, both blinds and Johnny. Five players saw the flop.
Flop:
The first three players to act checked, and so Darren kicked it up a notch, betting 8,000. All but Luke decided to call it quits. Down came a .
Not interested in messing around, Darren shoved. Luke thought about it for a short time, but tossed away what he claimed were some solid cards in the face of Darren’s confident play.