Prince Patel Makes A Royal Entrance
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We missed the action ourselves but a player rushed over to the PokerNews reporting desk to inform us of an extraordinary hand involving former chip leader Steve Wolfe and Emil Patel. Apparently, Wolfe and Patel got into a confrontation in which all of Patel's chips were at risk, with Wolfe seeking to pad his already dominant chip stack. The flop read 
when the action escalated and what happened next is straight out of a poker movie.
Showdown:
Wolfe: 
Patel: 
(X)
Wolfe had hit the flop hard and made top set with his pocket kings. Patel was still alive with his royal flush draw and was looking for a suckout on the turn or river, needing a jack or diamond to take the lead.
Turn:
Wolfe filled up on the turn, making kings full of tens and his already massive stack appeared poised to grow even larger. Patel was left with a single card in the deck that could save him and had to hit the mother of all poker hands, the royal flush, to score the victory.
River: 
The dealer delivered the miraculous one-outer, completing Patel's royal flush and launching him towards the top of our Day 2 leaderboard. Wolfe's stack was brought back down to earth with the bad beat and he will have to start from scratch if he hopes to regain his previous momentum.