02-22-2010 18:14 UTC-12

Resurgent Rousso

[user75032]

The prognosis for Vanessa Rousso's continued tournament existence was not so great a few hours ago. Now she has 1.2 million chips and is once again firmly in control of her own fate.

Sitting in the big blind, she called a raise to 27,000 from Ravi Raghavan. Both players checked the {j-Spades}

{j-Spades}

{A-Diamonds}

{8-Clubs}

flop. When the turn came {3-Spades}

{3-Spades}

, Rousso fired out a bet of 50,000. Raghavan called.

The river was a third spade, {5-Spades}

{5-Spades}

. Rousso led out for another 125,000, then proudly turned over the second nuts, {k-Spades}

{k-Spades}

{9-Spades}

, after Raghavan called. Raghavan could only say, "Wow," as he mucked.

Tags: Ravi Raghavan Vanessa Rousso