Farkye Nipping at Esfandiari's Heels

Kofi Farkye is sitting behind 375,000 after eliminating Kevin Saul. The two apparently got into a pissing contest on a king-rag-rag flop. Since they were about even in chips with approximately 180,000 each and the board was fairly dry, Saul must have thought there was no way Farkye would call his all-in bet after Farkye had made a big reraise. He was wrong. Farkye called with with {K-?}

and was in the lead with top pair. Saul showed {8-Hearts}

, a hand that had not connected with the board in any appreciable way. The turn was a {4-?}

that at least gave Saul outs to a gutshot straight, but he missed the river.

When the stacks were counted down, Farkye had Saul covered by about 12,000 chips. His new count is 375,000; Saul is out of the tournament.

Tags: Kevin Saul Kofi Farkye