They Meet Again
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First in from the button, McLaughlin opened to 5,500. In the small blind, Tommy Vedes (who ironically finished 19th in that same Main Event) three-bet to 17,000, and McLaughlin took his pause. After a minute or so, he slid out a tall stack of uncounted blue chips for a re-reraise. Vedes stacked together his remaining chips and moved all in for a small raise on top of that, about 95,000 total. His opponent took care of the extra few thousand chips to put him at risk, and the cards were turned up:
McLaughlin:
Vedes:
The dealer fumbled the flop a little bit, but when he re-spread the cards, they showed
. Just like that, Vedes was drawing dead to runner-runner. The 
on the turn ended the hand right there, and Vedes was already ten paces away from the table by the time the 
hit the river.2009 was a hell of a year for Tommy Vedes, but 2010 has started off pretty poorly. Marc-Étienne McLaughlin, on the other hand, appears to have taken over the chip lead with his stack of 495,000.