Daniel Merrilees Wins Massive Flip To Leave Wang With Crumbs

Jul 24, 2023

Daniel Merrilees

A massive clash has seen the biggest pot of the tournament go to Daniel Merrilees (pictured), while leaving Michael Wang with an unlikely short stack.

Wang raises on the button to 36,000 and gets three-bet to 105,000 by Merrilees in the small blind.

After a moment of thought, Wang four-bets all in, slightly covering Merrilees stack of just under 850,000.

Merrilees thinks for a bit then slides in a call, setting up a huge flip that could potentially end his day on the bubble.

Daniel Merrilees: Club JSpade J
Michael Wang: Diamond AClub K

The flop comes Club 7Diamond 5Spade 2, bringing no help to Wang, nor does the Spade 9 turn, leaving Wang with one card to avoid losing the vast majority of his stack.

The dealer then places the Diamond 10 on the river, keeping Merrilees jacks ahead to rocket to a huge chip lead, while leaving Wang with under 10 big blinds.

Daniel Merrilees – 1,700,000 (106 bb)
Michael Wang – 120,000 (7 bb)

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