Billy O'Neil Doubles Through Aaron Mermelstein

Will Failla raises to 8,500 from the cutoff and Aaron Mermelstein calls on the button. Billy O’Neil moves all in from the big blind for his last 51,000 and Failla goes into the tank for a minute before folding and then Mermelstein snap-calls.

Mermelstein tables , but is in bad shape against O’Neil’s . The flop is and Mermelstein goes from worst to first in the blink of an eye.

“There we go,” said O’Neil as the dealer peels off the on the turn.

The river is the and O’Neil doubles up at the expense of one of the chip leaders.

Billy O’Neil – 117,000
Aaron Mermelstein – 540,000