Mike Leah is a great player, having won almost $8,000,000 over the course of his poker career. If you have him at your table, watch out – he might just take your stack. That lesson was meted out to Jack Salter just now, who was our chip leader recently. Unfortunately for Jack, he is the chip leader no more.

Although we missed the early part of the hand, when we arrived at the table Mike and Jack were both all in for about 1,750,000 million chips each. Mike’s pocket tens ended up taking down Jack’s ace-queen, with Mike now the proprietor of over 3,500,000 chips, and the likely new chip leader. With this absolutely massive pot, which crippled Jack, Mike is now in very comfortable position to go deep.

He’s not the type to make mistakes, so we wouldn’t be surprised if he goes the distance today and ends up bagging a spot at the final table. Play continues…