Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:38 AM Local Time
John Gale is Back as a New Break Begins
The situation has changed drastically after 47 hands of heads-up play.
John Gale keeps winning many small pots and managed to win a big one in hand 43. After Dietrich Fast raises to 225,000, Gale calls in the big blind and both see the following flop: . Both check to the turn: .
Gale is the one who bets 225,000 this time, and Fast sticks around to see a river. The last card is the . Here, Gale bets 565,000 and gets raised to 2,250,000 by Fast. Gale makes the quick call with . Fast was bluffing with and is now down to 2,500,000.
Gale is the chipleader at that point with 8,200,000.
There are a few more hands to play until the new break and Gale manages to win a few more chips in small preflop pots, and he also wins the last hand before the break with on a for a 800,000-pot.
Gale - 8,395,000
Fast - 2,305,000