Hit By The Deck

Des Moines, Iowa local Brian Gonder appears to be having the kind of day poker players usually only dream of. Even when he folds, he winds up with what would have been the winning hand.

Gonder's found big slick three or four times already, making top pair once and getting all of one overeager player's chips when he put them in with a flush draw that never materialized.

"I've had a lucky two pair a couple times as well," he said. "I'm hitting everything and everybody wants to call. I'm just taking chips from the gamblers."

He's now on 80,000, in the lead, and praying to the poker gods this hot streak continues.