Russell Thomas Wins a Flip
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Russell Thomas, fourth in last years Main Event for $2,851,537, just made a three bet from the cutoff. His opponent Terry Oswald had opened to 4,200 but before we could count how much Thomas had made it, Oswald had already announced all in and Thomas had already snap called.
"Ok, how bad is it?" asked Oswald as he turned over 
. Thomas showed 
and added "I'm pretty good at these." And good he was as he spiked a king on the flop: 
. The 
on the turn and the 
on the river did him no harm and he could start stacking chips. Thomas made several uneven stacks out of his newly acquired chips so we had a lot of trouble counting. It looked like at least 120,000 but we're not a hundred percent sure.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
130,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
Busted |