Coultas Eliminated in Shocking Fashion

Kevin Taylor

Level 12 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Poker is a great game. There are few highs that can compared to dragging that big pot, pulling off that bluff, etc. However, it can also be a down right awful game, and we just saw that on display when Charles Coultas was eliminated.

We only caught the tail end of the action, but here is what we saw. The flop read , and Coultas was heads up with Randy Nguyen. We don't know the first two bet sizes, but we know that Nguyen led, Coultas raised, Nguyen three bet to 12,000, and Coultas shoved all in for 60,000.

Nguyen went deep into the tank, and at one point, held his cards up for his half of the table to see: . Nguyen had Coultas slightly covered, so if he made the call, the pot would have been over 125,000. Nguyen eventually made the call, and saw that he was up against the worst possible hand he could see.

Coultas:

Nguyen's top pair top kicker would need runner runner straight or running aces to win. Well the hit the turn, and based on what we've said so far, you can probably guess what came on the river.

River:

The whole tabled groaned at the site of the river, including Nguyen. To Coultas's credit, he took the beat very well, sitting in silence and shock for a few moments before getting up and wishing the table good luck.

After that pot, Nguyen is up there with the chip leaders of the tournament, with 135,000.

Poker is a brutal game.