Salmi-les in Front

The up-and-down run of Ville Salmi is on the upswing once again. Just now he called a button raise from Teemu Kangasvieri to 105k, seseing a flop of 9♦ T♠ 9♣. Both players checked.

The turn was the T♦. Now Kangasvieri bet 75k when it was checked to him. Salmi called.

The river came the 3♣. Check once more to Kangasvieri, who counted out 200k and bet it. A brief think, but a call with A-3 from Salmi, who'd leaped in front of Kangasvieri's 5♦ 5♥ on the turn he'd seen for free... His Ace kicker played with the Nines and Tens to scoop him yet another juicy pot.

Roughly he has 2,500,000 now, more than half the chips in play.