Florian-Dimitrie Duta Stacks Maria Ho and Samantha Abernathy in Massive Pot

The PokerNews Live Reporting team arrived at the table to see Florian-Dimitrie Duta stacking a fortress of chips and both Maria Ho and Samantha Abernathy gone. Duta informed us that Ho had shoved from under the gun for 1,275,000, action folded around to Duta on the button, and he looked down at . Duta shoved and Samantha Abernathy, who had about 4,000,000 chips to start the hand, called from the small blind to put herself at risk. The player in the big blind said that he had taken some time before he folded his pocket queens.

When the three players tabled their hands, Ho showed and Abernathy held . The board ran out queen high, and although Abernathy picked up a live flush draw on the turn, the river was no help, and Duta took the pot to eliminate both Ho and Abernathy. He appears to be the chip leader and the first player to amass an eight-figure stack.