"What a Setup'': Orpaz Falls as Ouaret Makes Bigger Boat

Connor Richards

Level 22 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Tom Orpaz started the day by tripling his stack in the first hour and things mainly went up from there. Then it all came crashing down as the real estate investor tangled with the only player at the table who had him covered, in what was surely the biggest pot of the tournament so far.

In a three-way pot on a flop of 7?A?8?, Orpaz bet 50,000 and Djamel Ouaret called, as did a third player in the hand, Richard Heveli.

Orpaz sized up to 200,000 on the J? turn and only Ouaret called. Orpaz, who started the hand with around a million chips, checked on the A? river and raised all in when Ouaret took the opportunity to bet. Ouaret called and Orpaz was stunned when he saw what the Frenchman turned over.

Ouaret showed A?J? for aces full of jacks as Orpaz showed J?J? for an inferior full house, revealing Ouaret had hit a two-outer on the river to eliminate Orpaz and take the tournament chip lead.

"Ace-jack, the only thing that beats me," Orpaz told PokerNews afterward. "And I have jacks."

"It was a good run," he sighed. "What can you do? What a f***in' setup."