$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 19: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 ante
Remaining Players: 7 of 139
Average Stack: 238,000 (48 big blinds)
First in from middle position, Ian O’Hara moved all in for 81,000, and action folded to Jean Gaspard. He stood up from his chair, interrupting his massage and revealing his shirt that reads, “Rise up against the odds.” Gaspard spent a minute talking through the predicament, verbally admonishing himself to fold. Eventually, though, he called to put his opponent at risk.
O’Hara:
Gaspard:
Gaspard walked around the table and began giving the dealer a massage in preparation for the run-out.
The appeared right in the window, and Gaspard squealed with delight as the dealer spread . The turn kept O’Hara alive, though, and the river improved him to the winning aces full. He doubled up through a stunned Gaspard.
Ian O’Hara – 173,000 (35 bb)
Jean Gaspard – 157,000 (31 bb)