Hand #46: Phil Hellmuth had the button. David Einhorn opened to 1.2 million from under the gun, and took down the blinds and antes.
Hand #47: Antonio Esfandiari started the hand with the button. Phil Hellmuth opened to 1.6 million from the cutoff, Esfandiari three-bet to 3.35 million, and the blinds released. Hellmuth folded face up, and Esfandiari showed .
Hand #48: Sam Trickett held the button, and opened to 1.2 million when the action folded to him. Guy Laliberté defended his big blind, and the dealer fanned . Both players checked. The turn was the , and Laliberté led for 1.5 million. Trickett released, and Laliberté tabled then raked in the pot.
Hand #49: David Einhorn started this hand with the button. Sam Trickett raised to 1.2 million from the cutoff seat and action folded to Brian Rast in the big blind. He put in a reraise to 2.875 million. Trickett folded and Rast won the pot.
Hand #50: Guy Laliberté had the button. Sam Trickett kept up his aggression with a raise to 1.2 million from the hijack seat. David Einhorn announced a reraise to three million and slid out the chips. Action folded back to Trickett. Trickett looked at Einhorn, then at Einhorn's stack. He then thought while doing some shuffling of his chips. After a minute, Trickett folded the . Einhorn showed the and Trickett dodged one there.
By making the money in this event, Sam Trickett earned another seven-figure tournament score, giving him four in his career. The only other players with four or more seven-figure scores are Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen. This puts Trickett in quite the company of players as one of the elite. What's so crazy about Trickett is that he's still so young at just 25 years of age and has plenty of poker ahead of him.
Player
Event
Prize
Gus Hansen
2005 Poker SuperStars Invitational Grand Final
1st - $1,000,000
2007 Aussie Millions Main Event
1st - $1,192,919
2008 World Poker Tour World Championship
2nd - $1,714,800
2010 Poker Million IX
1st - $1,000,000
2012 One Drop Mega Satellite
1st - $1,000,000
Michael Mizrachi
2005 WPT L.A. Poker Classic
1st - $1,859,909
2006 WPT Borgata Winter Open
1st - $1,173,373
2010 WSOP $50,000 Players Championship
1st - $1,559,046
2010 WSOP Main Event
5th - $2,332,992
2012 WSOP $50,000 Payers Championship
1st - $1,451,527
Phil Ivey
2005 Monte Carlo Millions
1st - $1,000,000
2008 WPT L.A. Poker Classic
1st - $1,596,100
2009 WSOP Main Event
7th - $1,404,014
2012 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge
1st - $2,058,948
Sam Trickett
2011 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge
1st - $1,508,258
2011 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge
2nd - $1,384,631
2011 Partouche Poker Tour
1st - $1,364,666
2012 WSOP Big One for One Drop
TBD
Trickett is also the only player in poker history with three million dollar scores in the same year, which he accomplished in 2011. With the more than $1.6 million Trickett has already locked up in this event, his all-time live tournament winnings have eclipsed $7.9 million. It's safe to say, Trickett is officially playing with the big boys.
Hand #51: Brian Rast had the button, and Sam Trickett opened to 1.2 million from under the gun. Rast called, and Antonio Esfandiari called from the big blind. The flop fell , Esfandiari checked, and Trickett fired 1.8 million. Rast called, Esfandiari folded, and the turn brought the . Trickett tanked, then led out for 3.8 million. Rast called.
The completed the board, and Trickett tanked before moving all in for effectively 8.275 million. Rast snapped it off, tabling for a flopped flush, but Trickett turned over for quad threes!
In a stunning turn of events, Rast was eliminated in sixth place, earning him $1,621,333. Trickett is now our chip leader with 51 million chips.
Hand #52: Phil Hellmuth had the button. David Einhorn raised from under the gun to 1.2 million. Action folded to Antonio Esfandiari in the small blind and he reraised to 2.8 million. Einhorn moved all in for 14.05 million and Esfandiari folded.
Hand #53: Antonio Esfandiari had the button. Action folded to him and he raised to 1.325 million. David Einhorn called from the big blind to see the flop come down . Einhorn was first and led for 1.6 million. Esfandiari called.
The turn was the and Einhorn led for 2.2 million. Esfandiari called.
The river completed the board with the and Einhorn checked. Esfandiari fired 4.7 million and Einhorn folded the face up. Esfandiari showed the .
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face up, and Esfandiari showed 
.
. Both players checked. The turn was the 
then raked in the pot.
. Einhorn showed the 
and Trickett dodged one there.
, Esfandiari checked, and Trickett fired 1.8 million. Rast called, Esfandiari folded, and the turn brought the 
. Trickett tanked, then led out for 3.8 million. Rast called.
completed the board, and Trickett tanked before moving all in for effectively 8.275 million. Rast snapped it off, tabling 
for a flopped flush, but Trickett turned over 
for quad threes!
. Einhorn was first and led for 1.6 million. Esfandiari called.
and Einhorn led for 2.2 million. Esfandiari called.
and Einhorn checked. Esfandiari fired 4.7 million and Einhorn folded the 