Championship Day 1A: Family Pot Turns Tense for Nuri Kural and Blair Hinkle

$5,250 SHRPO Championship (Single Re-Entry)
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight A Entries: 371

Nuri Kural vs. Blair Hinkle — Nuri Kural (left) studies Blair Hinkle as Hinkle tanks on the river.

With a full table of nine players, eight of them limped to see a flop of 10c 10h . Three players check to Nuri Kural, who bet 5,000 from the hijack. Blair Hinkle called from the cutoff, the button folded, and the small blind called. The next four players folded.

Three players still in action to the turn, which is the . The small blind checked, and Kural bet 13,300. Hinkle called, and the small blind folded.

The river card was the , and Kural took a good look at Hinkle’s remaining chips (Hinkle had about 34K behind) before betting about half of Hinkle’s stack — 17,300.

Hinkle tanked for a very long time before he folded, and Kural took the pot.

Nuri Kural – 110,000 (183 bb)
Blair Hinkle – 34,000 (57 bb)