Alex Jacob - Pro Blog

Hey guys, I started the day with a little under 20,000 at a fairly tough table that included Bertrand grospellier, the tough spikey-scandi that I played with on day 1 (who I can tell is a very strong player by the way), max pescatori, isabelle mercier who took a bad beat with JJ against AT and was replaced by erik seidel. But it was ben grundy, a young british player in the 3 seat who put me to a tough decision early. I opened the pot with black 8s and was called in one spot behind me and by the SB and ben in the BB. Four of us saw the flop of T76 with two clubs, sb checks and ben bet out 2500. I put him on either a draw or a strong hand wanting action like a set or 89. I called and it was heads up to the turn which brought another T. I had about 15,000 left on the turn, and from the way ben was looking at the board and deciding what to do, it felt like he wasn