Alain Medesan Gets His Aces Cracked and Is Eliminated by Jeffrey Colpitts

Alain Medesan raises from the cutoff, Jeffrey Colpitts reraises from the big blind to 3,500, and Medesan reraises to 10,000. Colpitts five-bets all in, and Medesan snap-calls all in for 37,300 with .

Colpitts turns over , and Medesan needs his aces to hold to stay alive. “I folded a jack,” says Mike Dentale from the small blind, which makes the hand that much tougher for Colpitts to win.

But the board comes , and Colpitts catches a runner-runner queen-high straight to win the pot and eliminate Medesan.

Jeffrey Colpitts  –  99,000  (495 bb)
Alain Medesan  –  Eliminated

“I folded the other jack,” says Laurence Grondin. “But I wasn’t going to say anything.”