When the numbers started to drop below 18 players at the last two tables of the World Series of Poker main event on day seven were getting excited; only nine of them could make the final table that would play in November, delayed for the first time in WSOP history. In this particular hand one player would star their fate in the face and whether they left or stayed for one more hand depended on one single card in the deck of fifty two.
Scott Montgomery was first to act, raise it to $350k in tourney chips with:
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followed by Nick Sliwinski, who moved all in with apple jacks:
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Ylon Schwartz was next to act, and he made the call with pocket tens:
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Scott folded out of the way and left it to the other two to duke it out. Nick was covered by Ylon, so he needed some help or he was going home early.
The Flop came down:
no help to Nick. He had the over cards, which was what they call a race situation, but with that flop the odds of him catching something to help were very small.
The Turn, however, brought him the relief he needed when:
hit the board, causing him to light up like a Christmas tree. He ran around waving one finger, saying “one out!” because he knew another player had folded a ten; this meant that only the remaining ten in the deck could send him home if it came on the river.
The River was lucky for Nick, it came:
and the young man stayed alive one more hand; and started to sing the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gee’s for emphasis.
