2015 Western New York Poker Challenge

Event 5: $50 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
2015 Western New York Poker Challenge
Final Results
Winner
Prize
$5,700
Event Info
Buy-in
$39
Prize Pool
$41,040
Total Entries
1,026
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 1,026

Stranger Than Fiction

Level 4 : 100/200, 0 ante

Derby, NY's Jim Bucki found a strange way to triple up moments ago.

He called all in on a flop with two diamonds thinking he had the nut flush draw - only he didn't.

"I thought I had two diamonds," he said. "Only that was last hand."

However, his {a-Diamonds}{9-Spades} was the best hand up against one player with the {k-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} flush draw and another holding {a-Clubs}{4-Hearts} for the gutterball. Blanks on the turn and the river kept Bucki's ace-high ahead and he tripled up to a little more than double the starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Jim Bucki
Jim Bucki
22,000
22,000
22,000