ESPN Runout
Level 20
: Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante
Action was caught with cutoff Tony Cousineau and big blind Casey Hayes heads up to a flop of A♥2♥3♥ Both players got all in on the flop, with Hayes covering Cousineau's stack of 115,000.
Tony Cousineau: A♣Q♦J♦J♠2♣
Casey Hayes: K♠K♥9♦7♥3♦
With neither player holding a low, Cousineau's top and bottom pair were ahead of Hayes' nut flush draw. The turn 3♠ propelled Hayes into the lead, only needing to avoid a boat, but the J♥ river meant Cousineau's two pair counted for nothing, with jacks full of threes the hand that would get him over the line. "That's an ESPN runout", commented another player at the table.