Klodnicki Runs Good to Close it Out
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It was the friendliest, most talkative match of the day, but it's over now. Randal Flowers limped in from the button, and Chris Klodnicki knocked the table for a free flop.
It came 
, and Flowers put out a bet of 3,700. He started talking, throwing out a bunch of scenarios for Klodnicki to consider. "The last time I did this, I had the ace," he said at one point. Klodnicki was undeterred, though, and he check-raised to 10,000. Flowers called.
That brought them to the 
turn, and Kodnicki fired another 16,000 at the pot. Flowers called quickly once again, and the scary 
filled out the board. Klodnicki took just a moment to consider before flicking his bounty button into the pot for a symbolic all in. Flowers was baffled. He stood up from his chair and paced around for a moment as he tried to extract some information from his opponent. "You're repping, like, not that many hands right now," he said. "You go all in on the river... I guess you have the king of diamonds." After another minute or two, Flowers resigned himself to the call, tossing his own button into the pot.
Klodnicki tabled 
for the nuts on the turn, and Flowers quietly mucked, left with just about 5,000 chips.
He put that remainder into the next pot dark, and Klodnicki happened to find 
in the hole. Flowers was actually not in the worst shape as he tabled 
. "An ace!" he shouted, thrilled to have an overcard.
The dealer ran a flop of 
, and that added one more out for Flowers as the case queen would give him the best hand. The turn 
looked like it for a moment, but it was a near miss. The river was a total blank, the 
, and Klodnicki has topped Flowers to advance to the second round.