2011 World Series of Poker

Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 2
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q987
Prize
$292,825
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,445,850
Entries
1,071
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
0

Prince Patel Makes A Royal Entrance

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 0 ante

We missed the action ourselves but a player rushed over to the PokerNews reporting desk to inform us of an extraordinary hand involving former chip leader Steve Wolfe and Emil Patel. Apparently, Wolfe and Patel got into a confrontation in which all of Patel's chips were at risk, with Wolfe seeking to pad his already dominant chip stack. The flop read {K-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{4-} when the action escalated and what happened next is straight out of a poker movie.

Showdown:

Wolfe: {K-}{K-}{5-}{6-}
Patel: {A-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}{10-}(X)

Wolfe had hit the flop hard and made top set with his pocket kings. Patel was still alive with his royal flush draw and was looking for a suckout on the turn or river, needing a jack or diamond to take the lead.

Turn: {10-}

Wolfe filled up on the turn, making kings full of tens and his already massive stack appeared poised to grow even larger. Patel was left with a single card in the deck that could save him and had to hit the mother of all poker hands, the royal flush, to score the victory.

River: {J-Diamonds}

The dealer delivered the miraculous one-outer, completing Patel's royal flush and launching him towards the top of our Day 2 leaderboard. Wolfe's stack was brought back down to earth with the bad beat and he will have to start from scratch if he hopes to regain his previous momentum.

Tags: Steve Wolfe