Schulman Takes from Jaffe and Racener in Back-To-Back Pots

Nick Schulman has moved his way up the leaderboard nicely, and now has 165,000 in chips thanks to taking down two more pots against Jonathan Jaffe and John Racener.

On the first, Jaffe opened to 1,500 from the cutoff seat, and Schulman reraised to 3,900 from the button. Action folded back to Jaffe, he called, and the dealer spread the flop. Both players checked the flop, and then checked both the turn and the river was the board ran out with the and the . Jaffe announced that he had ace high, but that was no good against Schulman's .

On the next hand, Schulman opened with a raise from the cutoff seat to 1,400. Racener called on the button, and all of the others folded. The flop came down , and Schulman led for 1,250. Racener called. The turn was the , and Schulman slowed down with a check, but didn't go anywhere when Racener bet 2,600. He called, and the completed the board. Both players checked.