Big Sweat for Combes
It was surely exciting for Charles Combes to pick up in the big blind when big-stacked Michael Eiler had raised in the cutoff to 12k - his shove (120k total) looked suspicious enough for Eiler to call with and Combes was poised to double up.
The flop, however, was . It's hard to imagine a worse one for the Aces in this match-up. Combes had to sweat the turn and river at full fever pitch, and exhaled as the pot came over to him, saying, "My heart was pounding."