$400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em
Prize Pool: $2,261,490 | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 250 of 6,853
There was a highly unusual hand late in the last level at Table 47, and a couple of the players recapped the action for us.
The player on the button min-raised to 30,000, but Pierre-Xavier Laurent was in the big blind and didn’t notice the raise. Thinking it was a walk, Laurent flipped over his cards to show the table 
.
There was obviously some confusion at this point, but the situation was resolved with Laurent calling the raise and the player on the button showing his cards (after some encouragement from Laurent) to reveal 
.
So the hand would continue with both hands revealed to the entire table.
The flop came 
, giving Laurent a gutshot Royal Flush draw to the button’s overpair. A poker odds calculator shows the pocket kings as a 56%-to-44% favorite over the ace-queen suited.
With their hole cards face up, Laurent checked, the player on the button bet 50,000, and Laurent called.
The turn card was the 
. At this point, the pocket kings were a 66%-to-34% favorite over Laurent’s gutshot Royal Flush draw.
Laurent checked, the button moved all in for 350,000, and Laurent folded, saying he didn’t have the pot odds he needed to make the call.
A lot of players flag us down to say we missed a crazy hand, but it’s usually not that crazy. This one, however, qualifies as something that we rarely ever see.
Pierre-Xavier Laurent – 1,300,000 (65 bb)
With about 250 players remaining from a field of 6,853, the average chip stack is around 685,000 (34 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $1,480 each.
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