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Tayi Soars to Big Stack
A-5 Triple Draw
There were two open seats and Venkata Tayi stormed into a big stack after having knocked out Steve Zolotow and Colin Maneval. Nicholas Julia was also involved in the hand but the six-five of Tayi won it all as the cards were all but mashed together.
Tayi then won a pot off Frank Kassela to leave the latter with a single T-5,000 chip. Mike Gorodinsky arrived and raised, Kassela called all-in and Tayi called as well. Gorodinsky discard two cards, Kasella three and Tayi patted.
"That means there are a lot of good cards in the deck," Kasella joked. One more bet each went in between Gorodinsky and Tayi but the former then folded. Tayi patted once more and Kasella took one more card to reveal 
first. "Am I live?" he asked and peeled the 
to get there, as Tayi briefly exposed the 
.
The previous hand was described as a blood bath by Julia, by the way.