Julian Gaines Ascending

Level 23 . Ante 30k . Blinds 15k.30k . Entries 51.1879

Julian Gaines catches heat coming out of the break, having boosted his 2.185 million by at least 50%.

In a recent flurry of hands, Gaines has a bet of 300k in front of him in the lojack on a completed board of . There’s already roughly 1 million in the pot, and action is on Sean Lee in the big blind.

Lee goes into the tank for a while before calling and Gaines shows for top pair. Lee mucks.

On the next hand, Kim Stone open-jams UTG+1 for 180,000 and Gaines calls one seat over, the lone taker.

Stone’s improves to two pair on a runout to double through Gaines’s unimproved .

However, Gaines gets a bit back and more on the very next hand. He raises to 100k UTG+1 and Angel Castro Pinto defends his big blind.

Castro Pinto check-calls 200k on , and action checks through to showdown after running complete the board.

Castro Pinto flashes a and Gaines beats it with .

Gaines has a bit of a jumbled stack, but it looks to be around 3.35 million. Castro Pinto has 2.2 million, Lee 730k, and Stone 435k.