A Diamond in the Rough

Tyler Patterson open-shoved from under the gun, moving his last 565,000 into the middle holding .

Jared Jaffee was next to act and he looked down to find , and he made the call to put his new neighbor at risk. The table folded around dutifully, and the two players showed down to find themselves in the classic coin flip situation.

The flop came to hit Jaffee's big slick with top pair, and the turn came to keep him in the lead. When the river fell Patterson took a second look back at his hand and said "diamonds!" before heading to his rail for a minor celebration. Jaffee had to take a second look at well, and he admitted that he never saw the diamond draw materialize, only realizing he was beat when Patterson became excited rather than dejected when the river card came down.