$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Entries:  480

After a flop of with about 3,400 already in a three-way pot, Nick Palma checks the small blind, the UTG+1 player checks, and the player in the cutoff bets 3,200.

Palma check-raises all in for 6,700, and the UTG+1 player thinks for a while before he calls. The cutoff folds.

Palma shows for an overpair, and his opponent turns over for a pair of jacks. Palma needs his hand to hold to stay alive.

The turn card was the , the river card was the , and Palma won the pot with his aces to double up in chips.

Nick Palma  –  20,000  (67 bb)

After the hand, Palma seemed optimistic about coming back from his big loss to Dean Baranowski (when his full house lost to quads), saying that he was going to treat his 20K as if it were the size of a standard starting stack and he had just bought in. (The actual starting stacks are 40K, but 20K is still a lot of chips at this point.)

The tournament clock shows 480 entries, though the actual number is nearing 600 based on alternates. Registration remains open until the start of Level 9 (around 9:15 pm), and players are allowed one entry and one re-entry per starting day (maximum of four entries).

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