Championship Day 1: Richard Seymour on the Rise

SHRPO $5 Million GTD Championship
Level 4: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Players: 788

Richard Seymour (Suwanee, GA)
Richard Seymour (Suwanee, GA)

Richard Seymour (middle position) and Jon Borenstein (cutoff) were heads up on the turn of a Td8d4d8s board. Seymour checked, and Borenstein bet 8,100 into a pot of 13,650. The bet sent Seymour deep into the tank, and he deliberated for long enough that the clock was called on him. When the countdown hit, “Five,” Seymour called.

The river was the 9c, and Seymour moved all in. Borenstein had 17,500 chips left in front of him, and now it was he who needed some time in the tank. “Doesn’t make any sense,” he said at one point.

“I should have jammed on the turn,” Seymour said.

After a couple minutes, Borenstein folded, and Seymour dragged the pot.

“Eight-nine?” someone at the table asked.

“One card,” someone else prodded. “Show one card.”

Seymour just smirked as he began stacking the chips. “No free cards.”

Richard Seymour – 74,850
Jon Borenstein – 17,500