Welko Hits a "Player of the Year River"
Level 18
: Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Quintin Sargent raised to 32,000 on the button, Craig Welko moved all in for 240,000 in the small blind, and Sargent called.
Craig Welko: 4♠4♣
Quintin Sargent: 10♠10♦
Welko found himself crushed by Sargent's tens, and the board came 9♦3♦5♣9♠ to leave the reigning Player of the Year on the cusp of elimination. The river, though, brought the 4♥ to give Welko a full house.
"Well played. That's a Player of the Year river," Mike Hurley told Welko.