2011 World Series of Poker

Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day: 3
Event Info

2011 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Oleksii Kovalchuk
Winning Hand
77
Prize
$689,739
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$3,134,950
Entries
1,378
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000

One Outer? No Problem

Anthony Ruberto shrugs off the bad beat by the one outer.
Anthony Ruberto shrugs off the bad beat by the one outer.

In what was undoubtedly the biggest pot of the tournament and one of the sickest beats you can witness, Oleksii Kovalchuk has doubled up off of Anthony Ruberto.

Preflop, Ruberto raised to 50,000 from the cutoff and Kovalchuk re-raised to 135,000 from the small blind and Ruberto made the call.

The flop came down {4-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}{a-Clubs} and Kovalchuk led out for 150,000. Ruberto smoothly counted out his chips and put in a re-raise to 375,000. Kovalchuk then pushed out a stack of greens to make it 525,000 and Ruberto just called.

The turn was a {10-Spades} and Kovalchuk moved all in for 1,386,000 and Ruberto insta-called turning over {j-Spades}{j-Clubs} for a set of jacks and Kovalchuk was way behind with {4-Spades}{4-Diamonds} for a lower set and drawing to only the case {4-Hearts}.

Well... that case {4-Hearts} hit the river and the entire Amazon Room erupted in disbelief. After hitting the one outer, Kovalchuk doubled to just about 4,200,000 and Ruberto, who was our chip leader coming into the day and who had maintained that for the majority of Day 3, fell to just 550,000.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Oleksii Kovalchuk ua
Oleksii Kovalchuk
4,200,000
2,060,000
2,060,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Profile photo of Anthony Ruberto us
Anthony Ruberto
550,000
-1,600,000
-1,600,000

Tags: Anthony RubertoOleski Kovalchuk