01-06-2010 20:41 UTC-4

Lunkin Caught in a Pickle

[user66118]

We walked up to Vitaly Lunkin's table to see him all in and called on a flop showing {10-Clubs}

{10-Clubs}

{10-Diamonds}

{7-Diamonds}

. Lunkin had tabled {8-Spades}

{8-Spades}

{8-Diamonds}

, and Kasey Thompson showed {7-Spades}

{7-Spades}

{7-Hearts}

for the flopped full house.

Disaster would find Thompson on the turn though, as the {10-Hearts}

{10-Hearts}

ripped off the deck to improve Lunkin to the leading tens full of eights. The at-risk Russian needed only to fade the final seven in the deck to double up... but he could not fade it! Like a bolt of lightning, the {7-Clubs}

{7-Clubs}

struck the river to re-improve Thompson to the winning quad sevens, notching a knockout in the most unlikely of fashions.

Tags: Kasey Thompson Vitaly Lunkin