In a battle of pocket pairs waged before the flop, Satish Surapaneni just doubled through James Boyle to dent the former chip leader's stack in a serious way.
Surapaneni held and his ladies were crushing Boyle's . The final board ran out and Surapaneni claimed the pot.
Emad Alabsi ran his into the held by James Boyle, and a clean runout left him outkicked - and out of the tournament.
That makes two final tables in a week for Alabsi though, and after running so hot here at the Borgata Spring Poker Open, we wouldn't be surprised to see him take a shot in tomorrow's World Poker Tour $5 Million Guaranteed World Championship.
After biting his tongue for nearly an hour while a mysterious man stood directly behind him, remaining fixed in the perfect position to peer at his hole cards, Satish Surapaneni could stand no more.
"Floor..." he asked politely and patiently. "Can you have this guy move? He's been standing here for an hour and I don't even know him."
That's when the unidentified man decided to let Surapaneni have it, and what happened next was a sight rarely seen in the world of tournament poker.
"What are you a f--king pro?," the man said, his voice rising in anger. "F--king joke, I'm just standin' here!"
Surapaneni was visibly disturbed by the man's escalating tone and physical proximity, and he looked around the room in the direction of floor staff seeking their intervention. The heckler continued to direct invective and obscenities.
Finally, after we informed the floor staff that the man was disrupting play to the point that his removal was paramount, he decided to leave the room on his own accord.
The floor then instructed all other railbirds to keep their distance from the table, ensuring that the integrity of the tournament would no longer be comprised.
The bustouts keep on coming, with Miguel Borrero the latest casualty after he made two pair on the turn, only to find himself drawing dead when the money went into the middle.
Andrew Zhu had flopped with his on the , while Borrero made a pair with his . Fourth street brought a on board and Borrero then called off the rest of his stack when Zhu shoved. The river was meaningless and Borrero became the 7th place finisher here tonight.
Jinwei Wang held the button when Emad Alabsi opened to 125,000 from the cutoff.
Wang decided on a three-bet shove for his last 690,000, and without much hesitation James Boyle moved all in for the isolation four-bet, using his big stack to bully Andrew Zhu into folding his big blind. Alabsi also surrendered while congratulating himself on the disciplined fold.
Wang:
Boyle:
The two had been dealt racing hands and off they went to the flop, which came in Boyle's favor by falling . The turn was the and the river the , sending Wang to the rail in 7th place, while building Boyle's big stack even higher.
In a huge hand that went down before the recent break, Andrew Zhu played a huge hand against James Boyle that resulted in a new chip leader emerging.
Zhu held while Boyle rolled over , and with more than a million chips up for grabs, not to mention the overwhelming lead and a pay jump, Zhu asked the dealer every poker player's last words at one point or another.
"No ace," he pleaded, just as the flop was fanned. As is usually the case when cowboys go down, it was a a bullet that did them in. The turn () and river () bricked off and Zhu was left to stare at the board in agony while his stacks were cut down and delivered to Boyle.