Mike Beattie is up to 1,700,000 thanks to a blind-versus-blind situation that resulted in his pocket queens improving to quads when facing a coinflip against ace-king!
Kurt MacDonald has crashed out of the Monster Stack after being tricked by a player slowplaying his pocket kings preflop. Here's how the hand went down:
Timothy Reilly lost a huge pot a few minutes before the break to leave him with 220,000 chips, but then added an extra 30,000 to his stack as the players headed out for the first break.
The action folded around to Ilan Boujenah in the cutoff and he made it 20,000 to go. Sam Lee called on the button and Barry Austreicher squeezed all-in from the big blind for 199,000. Boujenah reshoved to isolate his all-in opponent and Lee stepped out of the way.
Boujenah:
Austreicher:
The first three community cards fell , keeping the pocket nines in front, The on the turn gave Boujenah outs to a straight flush, but the on the river was no help to him and he handed over a chunk of his stack, but he's still in great shape with 530,000 chips.