Hassan Abbas has just taken down a humungous pot and in dramatic circumstances.
There was always likely to be some sort of action when a 2,500 raise saw 4 people go to the flop!
With 10k in the pot pre, the
was checked to the original raiser who led out for 6,000 and Abbas made the call with 20k or so back...
The turn was the
, Abbas checked and his opponent now shipped the rest of his stack into the middle.
After some thought Abbas made the call with the draw-tastic
. He no doubt thought his flush draw and straight draw were live, but when his opponent flipped up a surprising pair of fives, it turned out a six or seven was also good!
And the river was the six!
A single pair of sixes was good enough for Abbas to sweep up a 50k pot, which will put him in the higher echelons of the leaderboard going into day two.