Welcome Back, Theo
Though he was our overnight chip leader, Theo has had a difficult time getting anything going today, and was in the middle of the pack with 80,000 at the dinner break.
Now he has a bit more.
A player in a late position opened the pot with a raise, and Theo made the call. From the blind, Mark Calzadillas came over the top of both players, moving all in with a big stack. The initial raiser folded, but Tran made the call fairly quickly, showing down
. Calzadillas was in big trouble with
.When the flop hit, he was already done for. It came
, making a boat for Theo Tran and leaving Calzadillas drawing dead to a running chop. The turn and river ragged off, and Tran removed Calzadillas from his newfound stack of chips.After the dust settled, Theo Tran regained the chip lead with a massive 343,000, while Calzadillas was sent off to wait in the cashier's line just behind the player he knocked out moments before.