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Dembla’s Aces Crack Munot’s Nines

Ashish Munot with his pocket nines bet 6x (3,000 chips) during Level 1, blinds 500/500 preflop. Harsh Dembla raised to 21,000 chips banking on his pocket rockets. The flop opened to 5 ♣ Q ♣ K ♣ and the turn showed a Q ♠. After such huge bets and raise preflop, we expected a c-bet on the following streets, but strangely the action simply checked, even though he had hit higher two pairs. On the river of 6 ♦ Dembla bet another 20,000 and Munot raised to 100,000, and Dembla called. The WPT winner took down the pot with his AA, QQ hand.

• Dembla: A ♦ Ax
• Munot: 9 ❤ 9 ♠
• Board: 5 ♣ Q ♣ K ♣ Q ♠ 6 ♦

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