Tough River for Boyd

No matter how Dutch Boyd played his latest hand, it seems, he was destined to lose it. Pre-flop, he three-bet to 2,000 after the under-the-gun player raised. Action passed to the small blind. He called the 2,000 and was the monkey in the middle when the under-the-gun player four-bet to 7,000.

Boyd craned his neck to get a better look at both of his opponents' stacks before calling the 7,000. The small blind quickly exited the hand.

The rest of the chips went in on a ten-high flop, {10-Spades}

, with Boyd calling his opponent's last 9,900. Boyd had pocket kings; his opponent had pocket queens. Neither player had a diamond, which was bad news for Boyd when the board ran out {2-Diamonds}

and

to give his opponent a rivered set of queens.

Boyd is down to about 6,500 in chips.