Lacay So Lucky - Hoivold Busted
![Ludo plays the game](https://s.pnimg.net/7wNNvaQ1-M1_mClMiZkkU0TMAwvG1Kx007MJtpUdHZk/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/MC81OS94MDZhN2Rj/NGUwYy5qcGc.webp)
It looks as though the chips went in preflop, and the cards were as follows:
Andreas Hoivold:
![{8-Clubs}](/img/cards/8c.gif)
![{8-Spades}](/img/cards/8s.gif)
Ludovic Lacay:
![{A-Hearts}](/img/cards/ah.gif)
![{A-Spades}](/img/cards/as.gif)
Board:
![{3-Clubs}](/img/cards/3c.gif)
![{5-Clubs}](/img/cards/5c.gif)
![{K-Diamonds}](/img/cards/kd.gif)
![{2-Diamonds}](/img/cards/2d.gif)
![{Q-Clubs}](/img/cards/qc.gif)
After spending some time counting the two players' chips, the dealer decreed that Hoivold busted, and Lacay was up to an almost-chip-leading 1,200,000. The amiable Hoivold was extremely polite and gentlemanly in defeat, although once he'd turned away from the table to leave, a quiet, "F***," escaped his lips.
As he told me his new chip count and I informed him that he was in second place, Lacay replied cheerfully, "At least I don't have the chip leader pressure."
[Edit -- looks like he actually is chip leader at the moment, by a whisker.]