Sam's Running like Sam
![[user141292]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
In the biggest pot in this world's biggest buy-in poker tournament, Sam Trickett has just catapulted to the chip lead.
The action started with Tony Bloom, who had just gotten moved to the secondary table, raising it up to 29,000. Wang Qiang made the call, and action folded to Sam Trickett in the small blind. He thought for as long as he could, and then tossed his time bank chip into the pot for an additional thirty seconds of tankage. After using up only a few seconds of his newfound time, he announced he was all in.
Paul Phua, in the big blind took back his big blind, which was yet to be changed out, a brown 25k chip. There was a bit of confusion for a moment, as it looked like he just wanted to take back his blind, until he decided to slide in his entire stack of brown 25k chips into the middle. This prompted Tony Bloom to bust a move and push his chips front and center as well.
The hands:
Sam Trickett: 
Paul Phua: 
Tony Bloom: 
Bloom's massive lead would not last long, with the dealer exposing the 
flop, prompting Andrew Feldman to say "I wish i could be Sam Trickett, no sweat or anything, just a six right in the door."
The 
turn was no help to either of Trickett's opponents, and Bloom would be left with one out on the river.
It wasn't meant to be though, as the 
hit on the river giving Trickett the winning full house, and close to a million in chips.
Paul Phua was left with about 180,000, and Tony Bloom was left with about 35,000 which he lost on the next hand to Trickett when he called Trickett's shove blind with 
and found no help against Sam's 
.
After the hand was done, and Trickett stacked his chips, his buddy Andrew Feldman decided to rub Sam's arm hoping some of 2011 Aussie Millions High Roller champ's luck would rub off.
To sum it up, that hand was a "rippah" as they say in Australia.