John Juanda Bubbles $25,000 Six-Max Event
After getting crippled down to just about two big blinds, John Juanda had to post the big blind for 20,000 of his stack. Brian Hodhod raised under the gun to 52,000 and Martins Adeniya called from the small blind. Juanda squeezed out his cards tight and then called all in for 40,000 total.
The flop came down and both Adeniya and Hodhod checked. They also checked the turn which was the . After the fell on the river, Adeniya checked and Hodhod fired a bet of 44,000. Adeniya folded.
Hodhod held the and Juanda the second best . Hodhod won the pot and Juanda was off to the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship across the room.
Frank Kassela returned to his seat from the PLO event to bag up when he heard the bubble broke and was ecstatic about Juanda bubbling and him taking over the lead in the race for Player of the Year.