The Great Heinz Heist
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team has very little access to the secondary feature table, so our reporter had to squeeze through the six-deep rail to the viewing screen for this massive three-way all-in pre-flop situation between Pius Heinz, Sebastian Ruthenberg and Jared Vengrin.
We got there just in time to see the cards being tabled:
Heinz:
Vengrin:
Ruthenberg:
Ruthenberg took away Heinz' other queens for the gut-shot Broadway draw after the flop of , but the turn and river ran out , and after the chips were cut down, Ruthenberg was left with around two million, but Vengrin had none.
With that virtual triple-up, Heinz is now sitting on a stack worth more than eight million!
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pius Heinz |
8,000,000
5,215,000
|
5,215,000 |
Sebastian Ruthenberg |
2,500,000
-2,160,000
|
-2,160,000 |
Jared Vengrin | Busted |