Insane Way to Bubble a High Roller Poker Tournament

A hand on the stone-bubble of the PHP 150,000 (USD $2,600) Excessive Curler on the Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila Traditional took fairly the dramatic flip after the flop.

The one-day no-limit maintain’em aspect occasion on Feb. 13, which attracted 85 gamers, had a PHP 11 million prize pool (USD $190,000 roughly). Kunal Patni received it for simply over $50,000, his second victory and fourth money of the sequence. He defeated Nopparut Piyatassakorn heads-up for the title. However this occasion gained consideration due to one wild dangerous beat.

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The match had approached the cash bubble with 12 gamers remaining. Sparrow Cheung, the brief stack, moved all in with A♦A♠. Patni referred to as from the small blind with AxQx, solely to make a disciplined fold when the large blind moved all in with Okay♥Okay♣, in response to the account of Lloyd Fontillas on Fb.

Cheung, who has over $2.7 million in stay match cashes, was in nice place to earn a double-up to assist him survive the bubble. Issues bought even higher for him when the flop got here out 2♦J♥A♣, leaving the large blind drawing solely to some unlikely runner-runner mixtures or the brief stack would survive.

The Okay♦ on the flip gave the participant with pocket kings a little bit of hope, however nonetheless solely with a couple of 2% probability of profitable the hand. However the Okay♠ on the river created the runner-runner quads, sending Cheung house in twelfth place, one spot shy of the cash, on a hand that will qualify for the dangerous beat jackpot in lots of money video games. However not in match poker.

The APT Manila Traditional started within the Philippines Feb. 7 and runs till Feb. 16. Russia’s Ivan Govorov took down the Principal Occasion on Saturday for PHP 11,069,680 (USD $190,201). He outlasted an enormous subject of 1,202 entrants, making it the biggest APT Principal Occasion ever. Govorov, at one level throughout the remaining desk, was down to only three large blinds earlier than occurring a heater.

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*Function picture courtesy of Lloyd Fontillas/Fb.