$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 207 of 1,207

Kaveh Tehrani apparently opened the cutoff with a raise, and Joe Elpayaa three-bet to 29,000 on the button. Tehrani four-bet shoved for 95,000 total, and Elpayaa pondered for a couple minutes before calling to put Tehrani at risk.

Tehrani:
Elpayaa:

The flop gave Elpayaa an open-ended straight draw plus three additional outs, as a ten would also give him the lead. Sure enough, the appeared on the turn to counterfeit Tehrani’s pocket pair. He was just beginning to stand from his chair as the completed the board, freezing him in his tracks.

Both players ended the hand with tens full of jacks, and they chopped up the blinds and antes to show tiny profits at the end of a fair fight.

Joe Elpayaa – 153,000
Kaveh Tehrani – 101,000