Coming back off the break in fifth place with a mighty stack of 152,400, Josh Tyler will have been in confident mood, but in the space of just two or three hands, he found himself propping up the rail and wondering if life as a blogger would be a less stressful career path (I can confirm, it's not).
The man who threw the first punch was Senh Man Ung, his
on a
board leaving Tyler's
in search of one of six outs. However, after the
river, it was Ung who took the pot, whilst Tyler could but shake his head in frustration and reconstruct a now depleted 80,000 stack.
A hand or two later, Tyler found himself in the small blind up against Stephen Holden in the big. Assuming their was preflop action of some kind, Holden led for 35,000 on a
flop before snap-calling Tyler's all-in. On their backs, and it was Holden who boasted the lead with
versus
. The
turn and
river were close, but no cigar, and the pot went to the Brummie. After a quick chip count, it emerged that Holden had his man just about covered, meaning the Tyler had fallen off his roof.
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