And he was in surprisingly good spirits despite how it played out. He raised to 525 with the and the player to his left called. Pillai had just 2,000 behind and so bet the rest of his stack in the dark. The flop came and his opponent called with . The turn was the , giving Pillai a flush draw and his opponent a gutshot straight draw. And on the river, the , giving his opponent a set and sending Shankar out of today's event.