Event 12: Three Straight All-In Situations to Break Table 23

$600 Six-Max NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 13: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante
Players Remaining:  59 of 434

Jason Young
Jason Young won the 2019 WPTDeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open, outlasting a field of 1,634 to earn $263,205.

The player on the button moved all in, and Jason Young called all in from the small blind for 21,500 with QsQc. The button turned over 9s8s, and Young needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The flop came Qd9h8c, though the queen was the last card revealed, giving Young a brief moment where he thought he had been outflopped. Instead, he was in a dominant position with a set of queens against a lower two pair.

The turn card was the Qh, the river card was the 5s, and Young won the pot with quad queens to double up in chips.

Jason Young  –  48,000  (19 bb)

Aaron Thivyanathan
Aaron Thivyanathan

The next hand, the player in the big blind got it all in with KhKc against the 9s9h of Aaron Thivyanathan in the small blind.

The board came 10h7c2dQd9d, and Thivyanathan spiked a nine on the river to win the pot with a set of nines, eliminating his opponent.

The next hand, before Thivyanathan could finish stacking his chips, the player who doubled up Jason Young two hands earlier got it all in from the hijack with Kh10h. But he was dominated and facing elimination against Thivyanathan’s KsKd on the button.

The board came AhQd3c6h6c — the short-stacked player flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Thivyanathan won the pot with his pocket kings to eliminate yet another player.

Aaron Thivyanathan  –  297,000  (119 bb)

With only three players left on the table, they paused to wait for new players, but instead it was their turn in the breaking order, and these players departed for their new seats elsewhere in the tournament field.

With 59 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 110,000 (55 big blinds). The field is in the money, with the remaining players guaranteed at least $840 each.