Laplante Wins Big in Three-Way Pot
Level 2
: 200/300, 300 ante
Allen Kessler raced over to the PokerNews live reporting desk to notify the team about a huge hand that had just finished.
The pot was over 200,000, with Eric Kurtzman and Ryan Laplante all-in. Tsugunari Toma was the third player in the hand and was the covering stack.
The final board read 
and the players had their cards exposed.
Toma had 
for trip eights and the nut low. Kurtzman tabled his 
for nut low and two pair while Laplante had the 
for a full house and again the nut low.
Laplante took two-thirds of the pot while the other two players took one-sixth of the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
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|
32,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
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