Championship Day 1B: Tarun Gulati Makes a Good Fold as Roman Kornev Makes a Straight Flush

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries:  885

Roman Kornev
Roman Kornev

With the final board showing 7h6c3d5h8h and about 17,000 already in the pot, Tarun Gulati bet 20,000 from the big blind, and Roman Kornev moved all in from middle position for 45,600.

Gulati went into the tank for a long time before he folded 10d9s face up — the nut straight.

Kornev let him off the hook by turning over 9h6h — a nine-high straight flush! — as he took the pot.

“I don’t normally show,” said Kornev. “But you don’t get that every day.”

Roman Kornev  –  83,000  (138 bb)
Tarun Gulati  –  29,000  (48 bb)

Tarun Gulati
Tarun Gulati

The tournament clock shows 885 entries so far here on Day 1B, for a two-day total of 1,778. Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9, around 9:15 pm. The total prizepool is already worth more than $5.68 million.

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after Level 6, around 5:30 pm, and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 10, around 11:15 pm.