Praveen Ponnaganti Knocks Out Two Players

A player raises from middle position to 13,000, Eli Levy calls from the hijack, and the player on the button moves all in for 48,000. Praveen Ponnaganti moves all in from the small blind, covering all three other players.

The player in middle position tanks for a while before he calls all in, and Levy says, “I’m folding the winner” as he folds without showing.

Here are their cards, in descending order of chip stacks:

Praveen Ponnaganti:  99
Middle Position:  AK
Button:  55

The board comes Q10946, and Ponnaganti flops a set of nines to the ace-king’s gutshot straight draw, but the board blanks out. Ponnaganti wins the entire pot to eliminate both players from the tournament.

Praveen Ponnaganti  –  610,000  (122 bb)