2017 World Series of Poker

Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MILLIONAIRE MAKER
Day: 3
Event Info

2017 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qj
Prize
$1,221,407
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$10,477,350
Entries
7,761
Level Info
Level
40
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
150,000

Boyko's Big Slick Beats a Set of Queens

Level 25 : 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante

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: {Q-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}
Yuriy Boyko: {A-Spades}{K-Spades}

Entertaining itself, the hand gained even spicier taste when the {J-Spades}{6-Clubs}{Q-Spades} 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 {10-Hearts} turn brought him the Broadway straight, pushing him to the lead. The {9-Spades} river even improved his hand to the nut-flush. Importantly so, without pairing the board.

Johnson shipped 595,000 to Boyko when the encounter had come to a close.

Player Chips Progress
Yuriy Boyko ie
Yuriy Boyko
1,250,000
870,000
870,000

Tags: Aaron JohnsonYuriy Boyko