During the match up of six poker pros on Mega Match week at Poker After Dark, the NBC late night poker show hosted by Shana Hiatt, every one of the players had been chip leader at one time or another. Barry Greenstein, Eli Elezra, Allen Cunningham, Jen Harman, David Benyamine and Phil Ivey had each tasted the $300k prize pool with their chip lead, and each had lost the chip lead at least once.
The current chip leader was Allen Cunningham, who alone was left to face Eli Elezra at the table for the win. Each of these players had a one in two shot at walking away with that three hundred grand, although Allen had the advantage by about six to one with his chip lead.
A few hands went by with each of them folding from the button, not liking their hands well enough to commit. Once or twice Eli called and had Allen go in over the top, and he had to throw away the hand or risk it all. This was Allen's technique for the last half of the game, putting on huge pressure to pick up pots, blinds, and sometimes whole stacks.
This time Allen moved all in pre flop with:
... and Eli called almost before looking at his hand. He knew Allen could be making the move with anything, and hoped his:
... would hold up.
The flop came:
... The turn was:
... The river was;
... and just like that Eli was out, Allen was in, and the $50k each player had put in to play was shipped to Mr. Cunningham.
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