Carnage at the Close

As is usually the case there was a flurry of last gasp action after the last six hands were announced.

Pete Chen, Sparrow Cheung and another unfortunate opponent got all the chips in three-way pre-flop with Chen holding , Cheung holding and their unfortunate opponent holding .

The board ran out and Chen and Cheung divved up the pot, with Chen finishing on 168,000 and Cheung on 112,000 while their opponent headed for the rail.

Kunal Patni took a huge hit shortly afterward at the hands of Thomas Lee with the two players getting it all on a flop of .

Kunal Patni:
Thomas Lee:

While Patni had flopped the straight Lee, who was the at risk player, was drawing extremely live with a diamond draw. The turn gave Patni a flush draw also, but unfortunately for the Indian the river was the to give Lee the double. Lee climbed to 104,700 while Patni was left with just 4,400.

Patni was all-in from under-the-gun the very next hand with tablemate Johnson Tan giving the Indian some protection with a middle position raise to 10,000 leaving himself 15,600 behind.

However, Lee gave Tan no respect for his raise and re-shoved from the small blind with Tan quickly calling off the rest of his chips.

Kunal Patni:
Johnson Tan:
Thomas Lee:

Lee held the lead in the hand and the flop fell [x] to keep him in front and the rest of the hand bricked out for both Patni and Tan meaning Lee finished the day with a double elimination and a stack of 156,000.