Stavropoulos Wins Massive Three-Way Pot Right Before the Break
Just before the break, a massive three-way pot went down that resulted in Manny Stavropoulos vaulting over 125K!
We picked up the action with around 5,000 in the pot and a flop of 
. Manny Stavropoulos checked from the big blind and Brian Rast bet 3,500 from middle position. The player in the cutoff then put in a huge all-in raise to 34,900. Stavropoulos thought for a considerable amount of time before shrugging and moving all in over the top for 42,000.
Rast couldn't seem to believe what happened, and it became apparent he had a legitimate hand. He took out his earbud, grabbed his eyeglasses out of their case, and got an accurate count of both his opponents' stacks. Rast, who stated he would have called the cutoff's shove no problem, spent minutes in the tank, and seemed to agonize over the spot sometimes looking as if he was going to call and others like he was going to give it up. Ultimately he spiked in a call.
Rast: 
Stavropoulos: 
Cutoff: 
Rast had flopped top pair with top kicker, and just as he expected he was ahead of the cutoff. Unfortunately for him, Stavropoulos had the best hand with a flopped set. Rast seemed disappointed to be in such a bad position, and he watched helplessly as the 
turn left him drawing dead.
The meaningless 
river sent the cutoff to the rail, cut Rast's stack in half, and sent Stavropoulos a near triple up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000 | |
|
42,000
-43,000
|
-43,000 |
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