Wednesday, June 17, 2015 12:35 AM Local Time
Obst Doubles Through Celestino To Take Chip Lead
The action folds to James Obst on the button who raises to 20,000. Griffin Paul then bumps it up to 55,000 from the small blind before Ariel Celestino raises it once more to 137,000 in chips. Obst asks for a count before five-betting to 248,000 in chips. Paul gets out of the way before Celestino moves all in for 882,000 in chips. He gets snap called by Obst who has 797,000 in chips.
Obst turns over and is up against Celestino's . The flop of gives Celestino additional outs to a straight, but he doesn't improve, as the board runs out the and to see Obst hold with his aces to rocket up the leader board.
James Obst - 1,655,000
Ariel Celestino - 185,000