Gutterball Number Two
The flop came down
. The early position player fired out a bet of 500, or about 25% of the pot. Dirksen just called. The turn fell
, bringing the fireworks. The early position player overbet the pot for 5,000. Dirksen raised to 11,000 before his opponent reraised all in to 19,000. Dirksen made an easy call holding
, the nut straight. His opponent had flopped a set of 4s with
, but the board did not pair when the river came
.Dirksen's opponent slowplayed to no pay and is out of the tournament. Dirksen himself now has 47,000 chips after rolling his second gutterball on the turn in ten minutes.