Noori Loses a Flip to Bust

Phil Hellmuth: / /
Scott Abrams: / /
Michael Noori: / /

We caught the action on fourth street where Noori was already all in. Hellmuth check-raised Adams, who called, and both players checked on fifth street. On sixth, Abrams led out, Hellmuth called, and both players knuckled on seventh.

Hellmuth showed then angrily turned over the for an air ball.

"How is that possible?" he sighed. "There are no clubs on board."

Abrams flipped over for aces and kings, and Noori tabled his first two down cards, the . He then peeled his last card slowly, to sweat it.

"No across club!" he said excitedly.

There are only three clubs with no sides - or are "no across" as Noori put it - the , , and . Since Hellmuth already had the ace, it meant that Noori was basically flipping to scoop the main pot and triple up, because the would give him trip threes.

Unfortunately for him, he lost the flip as he turned over the , and was eliminated. Abrams scooped the pot, and now sits with 28,000 chips. Hellmuth is back down to 7,000.