It's Like a Pokercoaster
He limped from the cutoff and then called the button's raise to 1,200. He checked the



Button:


JC Tran:


Nothing further of interest on the turn or river, and JC had Tran-sformed his stack into 22,400.
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But after the next hand, he was back down to 5,500. Faced with a king-high flop, JC bet the pot. His opponent on the cutoff made it all in for 11,500, and JC called with K-Q. His opponent was holding A-K, and no miracle queen on the turn or river put JC right back down at the bottom end of the chip-stack hierarchy.