Nelson Accidentally Eliminates Two Players with Eight-Four Offsuit

Yang Lu limped in early position off less than two big blinds. In the cutoff, Curtis Phelps jammed for about 1,800,000.

In the big blind, Norman Nelson did not see the jam in front of him, and he announced that he had to put Lu all in. Lu put in his 200,000 total stack, and it was ruled by the floor staff that Nelson must also call Phelps's all in, and the cards hit their backs three-ways.

Yang Lu: Q♦7♦ All in
Curtis Phelps: A♣Q♣ All in
Norman Nelson: 8♠4♦

A crowd gathered to witness an absurd situation as the A♥8♣4♣ flop was a sweaty one, giving Phelps top pair and the nut flush draw, while Nelson flopped bottom two pair.

The board would run out 10♥2♦, leaving Nelson's two pair best as he eliminated two players in ridiculous fashion.

At another table, Yotam Shmuelov was eliminated after jamming his short stack into Christina Read's pocket kings.