Konstantin Bilyaver WIns Huge Three-Way All-in
With the board reading in a three-way pot between Konstantin Bilyaver, Chady Merhej and Steven van Zadelhoff, it was checked to the Dutchman who bet 52,000.
Bilyaver then check/raised to 135,000 and suddenly Merhej moved all-in! Van Zadelhoff briefly now thought and also pushed all-in and suddenly the onus was back on Bilyaver who stood up in disbelief at what he was seeing. After about 20 seconds, he also made the call as the rest of the table, including Arnaud Mattern and Luca Pagano could only exclaim, "Wow!" at what they were seeing.
Van Zadelhoff:
Bilyaver:
Merhej:
Unbelievably, Merhej was drawing dead, while Bilyaver only had to avoid one of two case aces to nearly triple up. The turn was a blank, as was the river. Van Zadelhoff and Merhej both looked very disappointed, the latter eliminated.
Van Zadelhoff dropped to around 300,000 while Bilyaver's all-in was for about 420,000 meaning he is probably now at the 1.2 million level now and nearly the very top of the pile.