Boyko's Big Slick Beats a Set of Queens

A race between ace-king and queens is an evergreen in a tournament of MILLIONAIRE MAKER parameters. With 7,761 players in the field and countless tables in play, the classic race emerges all the time.

However, this clash evolves into something much bigger when the massive tournament squeezes to just last six tables full of hopefuls who are getting closer to the whopping seven-figure prize at the top. The dollar equity of these races grows rapidly, and the lucky winner is likely to earn tens of thousands more.

The latest player on the lucky side of the ever-popular coin flip was Yuriy Boyko, who three-bet shoved from the button over Aaron Johnson's shove from the cutoff.

Aaron Johnson:
Yuriy Boyko:

Entertaining itself, the hand gained even spicier taste when the hit the felt. Johnson flopped the top set but Boyko was more than alive, drawing to a royal flush, knocking on the poker gods' doors.

Boyko didn't get the royal, but he got everything else. The turn brought him the Broadway straight, pushing him to the lead. The river even improved his hand to the nut-flush. Importantly so, without pairing the board.