A Nightmare Elimination For Volpe
Livello 22
: 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante
We only caught the tail end of the pot, hearing more of it than we saw. We heard Darryl Ronconi announce, "All in," and almost before the words were out of his mouth, Ben Volpe snap-called. Just a half-second later, Volpe spun away from the table and let out a big, "No!" as he took a lap around the carpet. When we walked up to the table, the board showed 
, and Volpe had 
out in front of him. Ronconi had the only hand better, showing down 
for the nut flush.
It's the biggest pot we've seen today, and it has not gone well for Volpe. When the stacks were counted down, he was covered, and he'll be our 30th-place finisher here today. For Ronconi, it's Christmas come early, and he'll stack up the biggest pile of about 1.05 million now.
against the 
flop but the turn 
, river 
put a straight on the board and split the pot. Young is happy, to say the least.
, and he waited to see if he'd been eliminated. The stacks were counted down, and Ronconi's 331,000 ended up being the covering stack, sending Sarwer to the payout desk in 31st place.
. Froehlich's 
(bink!) 
board was out on the table. Heads-up, Isaac Baron made a leading bet of 86,000, and David Baker made the call to see the cards.
for the full house, and Baker's muck leaves his stack reduced to 205,000 while Baron improves to 435,000.