"They call me 'The Legend' back home," Wright said, "I can't find a table, no one would play me."
And he's not going too bad here tonight. He's been hitting so many flops (he said he has flopped sets with pocket nines four times tonight) that his opponents are left shaking their heads.
Even opponents like Joe Hachem. As one hand developed Hachem said to Wright, "I have a monster hand, and I know I'm drawing dead."
"Then why don't you fold?" Wright said as the flop came down three baby cards. Wright bet, Hachem folded and said, "Show me the wheel."
And Wright duly turned over his cards and, yes, he had indeed flopped a wheel. Just one more big hand he's hit so far tonight.
. Flack moved all in holding
against Shannon Shorr. Shorr called and turned over the smaller end of the straight with
.
, the original raiser bet 9,600 and Guiglini called for his last 9,000 and Smith also called.
came on the river, and Smith showed down the
. The original raiser mucked, and Guiglini showed
. There was no low and Smith's trip nines won the entire pot. And Aurelien Guiglini went out in 73rd place, right on the bubble.