Ruben Perceval has been nursing the short stack on the table for the last hour or so. He dropped down to 21,000,000, about 15 bigs, and with blinds at 700K/1.4M, he picked up in early position. He decided that it was time to do it. He moved his stack forward and announce that he was “all in”.
Action folded to Danick Landriault in mid position, who was sitting on 53,350,000, and he looked down at . He went deep into the tank as he was facing a tough decision. Sitting on 38 big blinds, if his pocket 7’s were good, he would be up to about 55 bigs. If he lost, he drops down to just over 20 bigs. After thinking it through for some time, he let go of his hand.
The situation was different for Kevin Rabichow who not only had a massive stack (123,500,000), he had a massive hand: , and he shoved over the top without any hesitation.
Ruben was drawing to two outs. The flop came which was of no help to him.
Turn: . There was only one card to go and only two outs.
River:
Kevin won the pot to add to his massive stack, and Perceval hit the rail eight place, collecting $150,000, a great deep run, but obviously not the result that he was hoping for.
Eight place, Ruben Perceval, $150,000