Hand #137: Nick Yunis Wins the WPT bestbet Scramble! ($315,791); Yunkyu Song Finishes as Runner-Up ($252,059)

Photo:  WPT bestbet Scramble Champion Nick Yunis

HAND #137  –  Nick Yunis moves all in, and Yunkyu Song calls all in from the big blind for 1,700,000 with .

Yunis turns over , and Song is actually in a dominant position with his tournament life on the line, though a chop is also on the table.

The flop comes , and both players flop top pair. The turn card is the , and Song picks up a club flush draw.

But the river card is the , and Nick Yunis wins the pot — and the WPT bestbet Scramble — with two pair, kings and threes.

Yunkyu Song finishes as the runner-up, earning $252,059.

Nick Yunis wins the WPT bestbet Scramble, earning $315,791 and a WPT Champions Trophy. Yunis’s prize includes a $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, a Golden Passport, and Yunis’s name will be engraved on the one-and-only Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup alongside every champion from all 22 seasons of the World Poker Tour.

Congratulations to Nick Yunis!

1st:  Nick Yunis  –  $315,791*
2nd:  Yunkyu Song  –  $252,059
3rd:  Eric Afriat  –  $165,000
4th:  Joe Jordan  –  $123,000
5th:  Nick Funaro  –  $93,000
6th:  Dion Jagroo  –  $71,000

Photo:  Runner-Up Yunkyu Song