, admitting afterwards, "I didn't really want to call."He was up against
and probably felt quite relieved when he flopped quads!After he told me this story, he raised the next hand from the cutoff to 18,000, only for the cutoff to push for an additional 35,000.
Powell made the call with
and saw he was against a dominating
. The board came
and Powell was knocked down to 240,000.
. The stacks were so big a floor person had to come over to count them down. It took over five minutes to do this, and all that while Ho sat there in shock with his mouth open. Eric Mizrachi commented that he was in a "poker coma".
and getting called by
but was called by
board. Robbins held
, but ran into
turn or
river.
to McNeil's
, holding on a
board.
, giving Boyrazian the main pot of 235,000 with
. Van Dam is down to 160,000 after his
but was way behind