Soomnath Datta has doubled up several opponents several times throughout the course of this final table, starting with some of the smaller stacks earlier on and continuing through with larger stacks as well. It seemed about time that his luck finally reversed itself, helping him to double up off of someone else for a change. And it couldn’t have come at a better time.

Soomnath’s preflop shove, for the third time in the last ten hands, found a caller in Ami Alibay. It was Soonmath’s against Ami’s . The poker gods smiled on Soonmath, gifting him with a board, building up his stack substantially while at the same time reducing Ami to less than a million, a position he has found himself in for the first time today.

No one was eliminated on the play, but it has changed the dynamic.

However, what the gods giveth, the gods taketh away. Just two hands later the same two players were all in against each other, with Ami’s tournament life on the line.

This time it was Ami who came out on top, as his took out Soonmath’s . The flop had come down   when they went all in, and the lead switched twice more before the hand was over, with an turn and a river. That’s poker!

Play continues…