Everytime we walk by Joe Tehan's table, it seems like he's collected another bounty. Tehan has a ridiculous stack, that by our best estimation is around 550,000. There isn't a single player in the room who has more then 300,000 right now, making his heater even more absurd.
To make things more interesting, Derrick Yamada, the chip leader to start the day, just moved to Tehan's left with 220,000. We smell a big pot brewing.
We don't know how it happened, but when we got tot he table, the player on the button had a raise of 30,000 in front of him. Jason Bundy in the big blind reraised to 80,000.
After that, the player on the button moved all in, for at least 60,000 more. This bet put Bundy into the tank.
"I'm either going to be massive chip leader or broke," Bundy was saying to himself. "You have to have aces right? You have to have aces."
Bundy kept fumbling with his chips and his cards. It looked as if he was about to call, then as if he was about to fold.
"Will you show if I fold?" Bundy asked. To which the player on the button didn't respond?
Eventually Bundy talked himself into a fold. It was at this point that the player on the button decided to show the .
"That was dirty man," Bundy said after the hand. Bundy is down to 160,000 after all the action.
We came into a three way pot on a flop that read . It was checked to Jejelowo, who fired out 10,000. He was raised to 23,000, and the original checker folded. It was back to Jejelowo, and after about 20 seconds of tanking, he moved all in, having his opponent covered. His opponent made the call, and it was a coin flip.
Jejelowo:
Opponent:
According to the Pokernews Odds Calculator, it was about as close as you can get. Jejelowo was a 49.29% favorite to win, while his opponent had a 48.69% chance to win. Jejelowo's odds increased to 70% when the hit the turn, but the hit hte river, giving both players flushes, but giving Jejelowo's opponent the higher one.
We caught up with the action on the turn, with the board reading . There was already a huge pile of chips, roughly 60,000 in the middle, when we arrived. We saw that Nam Le had checked to his lone opponent in the hand, Paul Hendee. Hendee fired out 30,000, and it was back to Le.
Le tanked for about 45 seconds before assembling a raise of 65,000, and sliding it into the middle. Hendee quickly moved all in, and Le took only about five seconds to call.
Le:
Hendee:
Le was in fantastic shape to secure the knockout, and virtually double his stack in the process. The river was scary, but it was the , and Le took the pot to get up over 300,000.