04-10-2010 12:54 UTC-12

Melville Hooks a Whale of a Pot

[user140525]

Alistar Melville raised to 150,000 preflop, and Vanessa Selbst called. The flop came out {J-Hearts}

{J-Hearts}

{10-Diamonds}

{6-Clubs}

, and Melville bet 150,000. Selbst bumped it to 425,000. Then Melville announced he was all in for another 1.125 million. Selbst thought for a minute, and tossed out enough traffic-cone-orange T100,000 chips to cover him.

He flipped over {J-Spades}

{J-Spades}

{J-Clubs}

for top set. "Wow," Selbst said, showing {A-Hearts}

{A-Hearts}

{Q-Diamonds}

for a gutshot. The {9-Spades}

{9-Spades}

on the turn gave her an open-ender, but the {6-Diamonds}

{6-Diamonds}

on the river instead filled Capt. Ahab's boat. Melville doubled to a little over 3 million. Selbst fell to 5 million, but she's still comfortably in the lead.

Tags: alistar melville Vanessa Selbst