He's a Rocketman, Burning Out his Fuse Up Here Alone

Just moments ago Jason Tulloss was on the ropes, staggered and nearly knocked out cold. Tulloss sat with his last 400,000 chips in the middle, and a dominated in front of his vulnerable short stack. Another player had called with and Tulloss was on the brink.

He hit not a ten or a straight on the flop and it looked bleak at that point, but the dealer burned and turned a to put him in the lead. When no queen arrived on the river, Tulloss doubled through survived a close encounter.

Just a hand or two after that, Tulloss found himself a real hand in , and he opened for a raise before the flop. An unidentified player flatted, but Mike Ortiz shoved all in for the power play. The flatter folded and Tulloss, of course, snapped off the bet with his pocket rockets. The final board rolled out to fuel Tulloss' lift off into the stratosphere in terms of our current chip counts.

To cap off his blast off, Tulloss claimed the rest of Ortiz' checks - about 580,000 worth - when he made quads with with . Ortiz held the , but big slick was no match for Tulloss' four tens, and after nearly losing it all just ten minutes prior, Tulloss is now one of our chip leaders.