Red River Roundupdate: Local Boys Hangin\’ Tough

THACKERVILLE, Okla.–With 19 players remaining, another Dallas player doing well is Arnie Block. He\’s a short stack with 166k. (Average is 266k.) But pretty impressive considering that he started the day in 100th place … with 4,700 chips. He\’s seated two to the right of TJ Cloutier, whose stack keeps getting healthier and healthier, with about 450k.

UPDATE: With 14 players left, Arnie was all-in for 44k. He had A-J vs the caller\’s A-4. He flopped a jack, but runner-runner spades would put a flush on the board, leading to a split pot.

On the next hand, he was all-in again … against TJ and one other player. Arnie had AsJs against TJ\’s pocket 4s and the other guy\’s 7s8s. The flop came with an ace and two spades. A third ace came on the turn … and a 7 on the river. Arnie, the shortest stack in the pot, tripled up, while the other guy rivered TJ, to knock him down to about 360k — a dead average chip count.

On the next hand, Arnie moved all-in for a third time in a row and took down the blinds and antes, bringing his previously tiny stack up to a respectable — or at least playable — 230k.