Oleksii Kovalchuk gets a four on the river to make quads against Anthony Ruberto's set of jacks.
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day: 3
Event Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,134,950
Entries
1,378
Level
28
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 1,378
Filter
(1)
In what was undoubtedly the biggest pot of the tournament and one of the sickest beats you can witness, Oleksii Kovalchuk has doubled up off of Anthony Ruberto.
Preflop, Ruberto raised to 50,000 from the cutoff and Kovalchuk re-raised to 135,000 from the small blind and Ruberto made the call.
The flop came down 
and Kovalchuk led out for 150,000. Ruberto smoothly counted out his chips and put in a re-raise to 375,000. Kovalchuk then pushed out a stack of greens to make it 525,000 and Ruberto just called.
The turn was a 
and Kovalchuk moved all in for 1,386,000 and Ruberto insta-called turning over 
for a set of jacks and Kovalchuk was way behind with 
for a lower set and drawing to only the case 
.
Well... that case hit the river and the entire Amazon Room erupted in disbelief. After hitting the one outer, Kovalchuk doubled to just about 4,200,000 and Ruberto, who was our chip leader coming into the day and who had maintained that for the majority of Day 3, fell to just 550,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,200,000
2,060,000
|
2,060,000 |
|
||
|
550,000
1,600,000
|
1,600,000 |
Level 24
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
Will Failla opened for 50,000 from under the gun and Chris Moorman moved all in behind him. Oleksii Kovalchuk called Moorman's all in, action folded back around to Failla and he folded.
Showdown:
Moorman: 
Kovalchuk: 
Board: 
Moorman doubled through the new chipleader and has 638,000.
Will "The Thrill" Failla moved all in on the button for 478,000 and Chris Moorman in the small blind made the call.
Moorman: 
Failla:
Failla called for the the entire time the board was being dealt, but it came down 
and Failla had no such luck as he hit the rail in seventh place. His elimination has set our official final table of six.
Moorman moves back up over 1,000,000 after the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,150,000 | |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 24
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
The players have reached the end of the level and have been sent on their one hour dinner break.
With no players at the table we were able to get up close and personal with each stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,970,000
730,000
|
730,000 |
|
|
||
|
2,375,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
1,686,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
|
1,300,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
740,000
222,000
|
222,000 |
|
571,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
Level 24
: 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante
The final six players have returned from their dinner break and they're having their introductions at the moment.
Level: 25
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
On one of the first hands back from dinner break, Chris Moorman took a big pot off of Dan O'Brien.
Moorman raised to 55,000 from the cutoff and Dan O'Brien re-raised to 148,000 from the small blind and Moorman called.
The flop came out 
and O'Brien bet out 162,000. Moorman in his methodical, slow method counted out his chips and called.
The turn was and O'Brien bet out 258,000 with Moorman again calling.
The river came the to put four diamonds on the board and O'Brien checked to Moorman who moved all in. O'Brien said, "I think I had you the whole way but that's as ugly as a board can get" and tossed his hand in the muck.
O'Brien fell to just above 1,000,000 after the hand and Moorman is up to nearly 2,000,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,900,000
600,000
|
600,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,100,000
586,000
|
586,000 |
Level 25
: 12,000/24,000, 4,000 ante
Ionel Anton opened for 56,000 and Anthony Ruberto called from the small blind. The flop came 
and Ruberto check-raised all in after a 178,000 bet from Anton. Anton called and flipped over 
and Ruberto held 
.
The board finished 
and Anton missed his flush draw, doubling Ruberto to 936,000.
