We heard the commotion typically associated with a bad beat in progress moments ago, and sure enough, a two-out bink had just been delivered.
The final board read and John Underriner had his displayed triumphantly in front of his soon to be doubled stack.
Another player sat with a forlorn look on his face, examining the board in shock with his sitting near his remaining 1,000 or so chips. He had flopped trip tens with a great kicker, and the money soon went into the middle, but Underriner caught up on the river with a miraculous catch.
Frank Ingardia just went busto at the hands of Dennis Dekenipp, and he was kind enough to fill us in with a postmortem.
According to Ingardia, he flopped a gutterball with the on the board, and he chased the straight until the river. Unfortunately for him, Dekenipp held and thus Ingardia's outs to the straight were cut in half.
For good measure, the river card came to give Dekenipp an unneeded straight, and with that Ingardia headed to the exits.
Dennis Dekenipp just claimed the chip lead after extracting value on the river.
The final board read when we strolled by, and Dekenipp had a bet of 16,000 pushed forward. The pot was already massive, containing dozens of the yellow T1000 chips and a motley assortment of other denominations.
Dekenipp's opponent did not appear to like doing so, but he called the river bet nonetheless, wincing noticeably when Dekenipp revealed his for a rivered straight. The other player said "I knew it" aloud to himself, before showing the for two pair on the flop.