Huge Pot for Sammartino

Dario Sammartino opened for 6,000 and was called from the button by Kirill Shugai. Short stack Erik Scheidt folded the small blind and Jonathan Duhamel made the call. Three players saw the flop of . Duhamel checked and the pre-fop raiser continued for 8,500. Shugai and Duhamel left them to it. Turn card and now Sammartino checked it over to Shugai who bet 12,500 only to be faced by a check-raise to 38,000. He gave it some thought and made the call seeing the river card fall the . Sammartino now led for a big bet of 116,000. Shugai got the dealer to clarify the bet, counted out the call from his stack and slid it forward to call. Sammartino turned over for the flopped set and that was the winning hand as Shugai mucked his hand.