"Holy Cow!" Says Marinko at Unexpected Triple Up

Short stacks are taking the plunge all over the Amazon Room at the moment - so fast is the rate of elimination that play has been briefly paused to make sure all payouts can be dealt with.

Just before this pause, a remarkable hand brought Walter Marinko back from the brink of the felt and brought a beat for Chad Layne at the same time. Preflop, button Layne opened to 35,000 and small blind Allan Cheng moved all in for 135,000. Big Blind Walter Marinko then moved all-in too - but for just 40,000. Layne thought for a while and threw in a call.

"Good call," said Cheng, as he turned over , as Layne had called with . Meanwhile Marinko said, "I went all in blind!" He turned over and looked very surprised indeed.

The flop and turn ran out with Cheng alternately calling for a three and saying he could now go and register another event. The river answered his prayer: .