Galfond Makes A Huge Call At The Night's End To Come Close To Chip Lead
Level 8
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
On a board of 
Phil Galfond and Masa Kagawa were involved in a big pot. With roughly 50,000 already in the middle, Masa Kagawa open shoved all in for 81,600.
Galfond went into the tank for a long time, and thought about it for roughly 5 minutes. By the time Galfond made a decision, several tables had already started bagging their chips.
Eventually, Galfond pushed out the chips for a call, and it ended up being the right one.
Kagawa turned over 
which was fifth pair on the board. Galfond showed his 
and that was good enough to take down the pot and to lock up a top five stack here at the end of the night in Event #52.