Toby Joyce Eliminated in 22nd Place (A$13,600)
What a sick, sick hand between two of the chip leaders!
Toby Joyce opened the hijack to 80,000 and Steven Zhou called from the big blind to see a flop of K♠3♦A♥, where Zhou checked it over. Joyce then took a stab with a bet of 145,000 and Zhou came back with a check-raise to 425,000. After some thinking, Joyce called.
The turn brought a K♥ and Zhou slowed down with a check, then Joyce bet 325,000. Around a minute passed before Zhou made a decision, which was another check-raise, this time to 650,000. Joyce took around 30 seconds before he called.
A J♥ completed the runout and instead of going for the elusive triple check-raise, Zhou instantly moved all in. Joyce had around 1,500,000 behind and went deep into the tank. One, two, three, four minutes passed and Joyce's head was still spinning around the blender while he figured out how to proceed. The clock was eventually called and when it was, Joyce dropped in a stack of chips.
Zhou then quickly flipped over A♦K♦ for a full house! "Nice hand," said Joyce as he threw his cards into the muck face down. The dealer flipped them over to show A♠Q♦, and with that, a massive pot was shipped to Zhou, who has over six million now!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
6,200,000
3,100,000
|
3,100,000 |
|
Busted |