A flop of was spread across the felt as we passed by, with three players standing in anticipation, so we stuck around to sneak a peek.

One player tabled his by positioning each card near the flop, perhaps trying to preordain his flush and gutshot straight draws to be delivered. Another tossed his in front of his stack, visibly displeased that his own open-ended straight draw was now less effective, as he could not spike a club to make his hand.

Emad Alabsi had the best hand at the moment with his for top pair, but he was dodging the deck and looking to fade multiple outs.

Turn:

"Yes!" yelled the player who found his flush. "One time!"

"It's not over yet buddy, one more card..." chimed in another player at the table, reminding the early celebrator that things were not settled until fifth street fell.

River:

"Whoa!" went the collective call, as the table reacted to Alabsi's miraculous full house. "Everybody hit their hand."

In the end, the flush beat the straight, but the boat beat them all, and Alabsi tripled up to over 60,000 midway through Day 1C.

Player	Chips	Progress
Emad Alabsi	63,000 63,000	63,000

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