$400 Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Level 21:  6,000/12,000
Players Remaining:  8 of 137

Sean Shah raises from early position to 32,000, and Iman Nikmaram calls from one of the blinds.

Both players checked to the river on a board of , Nikmaram checked, Shah bet 20,000, and Nikmaram called.

Shah showed to win the pot with a flopped royal flush in spades, and Nikmaram said, “That’s overkill” as he mucked his cards. Nikmaran would later say he had flopped two pair.

Sean Shah  –  215,000  (18 bb)
Iman Nikmaram  –  275,000  (23 bb)

A short while later, after a flop of , Shah checks the small blind, Tommy Tran bets 30,000 from the big blind, and Shah pot-raises to 154,000, with just 10,000 more behind.

Tran goes into the tank, eventually asking himself out loud, “Do I want to race right now?”

After a little more thought, Tran says, “Let’s race,” and he calls.

Sean Shah:    (pair of sixes)
Tommy Tran:    (pocket aces, pair of sixes)

Shah was pretty dominated in this spot, but the turn card was the , and the river card was the . Shah turned two pair, queens and sixes, to win the pot and double up into the chip lead.

Sean Shah  –  400,000  (33 bb)
Tommy Tran  –  155,000  (13 bb)