It looked pretty promising for Zachary King for a very brief period there. He moved all in from the big blind to Jacobo Fernandez's small blind raise, and flipping over his lackluster , he was pretty pleased to find himself ahead of giganto-stack Fernandez's even lamer . Even more pleasing was the board, pairing up King's hand and ensuring that he lived to see another one. Still, even with the double-up, he was on just 84,000, and posting the small blind next hand dented him down to just 78,000.
So a couple of hands later, it folded around to King and he made it 42,000. Greg Alston reraised, and King called all in.
It really couldn't have been worse for him, as Alston flipped over , massively crushing King's . A frisson of excitement as the flop came down two diamonds, but no diamond on the turn -- the board reading by the end -- meant that we are one baseball cap down.