"You Gotta Be Kidding Me"
Most tables are still just finishing up their first orbit of hands today, but we've already seen one of those eye-popping hands that defies probability. Then again, it stands to reason, perhaps, with such a large field that something like this would happen to someone.
A player in middle position raised, and Faraz Jaka, sitting to his left, was his only caller. The flop came . Subsequent action saw both players pushing all they could in the center, with the original raiser showing and Jaka . Both had flopped sets, but Jaka's tourney experience in this one appeared destined to be short-lived.
The dealer delivered the turn, the , then the river... ! "You gotta be kidding me," said Mr. Aces, who dejectedly departed.
Jaka not only survives, but now sits with a little more than twice the starting stack with 6,100.