Bownds Busts Karamalikis But Loses Flip to Huang

Jonathan Karamalikis' Main Event has come to a close, with Ryan Bownds the closer. Bownds was kind enough to relay all the gory details after the fact.

Following a limp from a player under-the-gun, Karamalikis called from the button and Bownds checked his option from the big blind to take the action three-way to a flop of , which it where all the fireworks went off.

The action was checked to Karamalikis, who led out for 15,000 with Bownds check-raising to 55,000 in total and Karamalikis committing the rest of his chips with a shove. Bownds made the call with , which was leading Karamalikis' and while the turn gave him some backdoor outs, the non-club river was not one of them and the High Roller champion hit the rail.

Bownds did not get to enjoy his ill-gotten gains all that long, losing a flip to Vincent Huang shortly afterwards, but is still in the running with a stack of 140,000.