Aces vs. Queens vs. Queens: Kelly Mayhugh Wins a Three-Way All-In; Robert Brown Down to Less Than a Small Blind

There is a three-way all-in situation at Table 7, with Robert Brown (middle position) as the big stack with about 75,000, Kelly Mayhugh (UTG+1) just 500 behind, and the player in the cutoff as the shortest stack with about 50,000.

Here are their cards in descending order of chip counts:

Robert Brown:  
Kelly Mayhugh:  
Cutoff:  

The flop comes , and Mayhugh flops a set of aces to his opponents’ gutshot straight draws.

The turn card is the , and Brown picks up a spade flush draw for additional outs.

But the river card is the , and Mayhugh wins the entire pot with his set of aces to double thru Brown and eliminate the player in the cutoff from the tournament.

Brown is left with a single blue (500) chip — only half of a small blind.

Kelly Mayhugh  –  205,000  (103 bb)
Robert Brown  –  500  (<1 bb) There was a similar situation earlier today, when Gennady Ruderman won a three-way all-in situation, with his holding up against two other players who had and .

Photo:  Kelly Mayhugh