Nielson Hits Miracle River To Skyrocket His Stack

Andrew Knowles

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The action was picked up in a pot of over 140,000 on a board that read Q?8?4?9?. A player in the hijack checked to Allen Nielson on the button who bet 65,000 and his opponent moved all in for roughly 96,000. Nielson quickly made the call to put his opponent at risk.

"Do you have queens," asked the hijack before the cards were turned over.

"Yep," replied Nielson

There was a bit of confusion before the cards were finally tabled because the hijack assumed that Neilson had pocket queens.

Hijack: K?K?
Allen Nielson: A?Q?

The hijack was so relieved to see his cowboys were way out front, however, the river fell like a ton of bricks when the Q? rolled off to give Nielson trips and send his opponent to the exit in brutal fashion.

Nielson scooped the massive pot to bring his stack well over the half a million mark.