Championship: Jeremy Ausmus Wins an 18.9M Pot to Take the Lead

$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Payouts | Live Stream
Level 29: 75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 914

Jeremy Ausmus

Hand #83  –  Jeremy Ausmus raised to 300,000, and Brandon Eisen called. Both players checked to the river on a board of 9h8h2sAdQh. Eisen bet 1,100,000, and Ausmus folded. Eisen took the pot.

Hand #84  –  Brandon Eisen raised to 300,000, and Jeremy Ausmus called. The flop came 8c4c4d, Ausmus bet 300,000, and Eisen called.

The turn card was the 9h, Ausmus bet 800,000, and Eisen called.

The river card was the 5s, Ausmus checked, Eisen bet 2,100,000, and Ausmus tanked for a while before he check-raised to 8,000,000. Eisen tanked for a long time before he called with 7c6d for a rivered nine-high straight.

But Ausmus turned over 8h4h to win the biggest pot of the tournament so far (18,925,000) with a flopped full house, fours full of eights.

Seat 6.  Jeremy Ausmus  –  23,550,000  (188 bb)
Seat 9.  Brandon Eisen  –  13,050,000  (104 bb)