Birdal Can't Hold a Candle to Waxman
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First into the pot, Matt Waxman came in raising to 14,000. Melih Birdal flatted from the small blind, and Allie Prescott came along from the big blind as well.
Three-handed, the dealer spread out a 
flop, and everyone checked through to the 
turn. The blinds checked again, and Waxman made a delayed continuation bet of just over half the pot. Birdal called, Prescott ducked out, and the river 
completed the board. Birdal took the lead now with 35,000 of his own chips, and Waxman moved all in with his covering stack. Birdal called off his last ~130,000, but we'd never get to see his hand. Waxman turned up 
for the nuts, and quad queens have ushered Birdal to the exit in 32nd place.
Waxman is taking control of this field, sitting pretty with 590,000 and the chip lead.