Abdullah Alshanti has played out some significant pots on this final table already.
First off he doubled up Symeon Marvakis – applying pressure at the wrong time and running his 22 into Marvakis’ QQ. The board of 9h 9s 5s Jd Th didn’t help and JJ Hazan and another player both revealed they had folded a deuce. Tough to get out of that one…
Next up he got his now much-reduced stack into the middle versus Charlie Porter’s pocket aces with Q-3. That looked like the end – until two threes appeared to bail him out! Crazy stuff.
Nothing compared to what was about to come though…