Hand #2: Andrei Boghean Cracks Kings To Bring The Field To 481

Dec 16, 2023

Championship Bubble Photo: UTG+1 (pictured, right) is at risk for his tournament life on the bubble of the WPT World Championship.

On the second hand of hand-for-hand play, a player jams for 82,000 UTG+1 and receives action from Andrei Boghean in the cutoff. 

Once play finishes everywhere else, the all-in player shows Spade KClub K and is ahead of Boghean’s Spade JHeart J.

The board runs out Heart AClub 10Spade 10Spade 2Club J — Boghean spikes a jack on the river to make a full house, jacks full of tens, causing the entire Encore Ballroom to erupt as another player falls. With the elimination, the field now sits on the direct bubble, just one elimination away from reaching the money.

Andrei Boghean – 1,030,000 (68 bb)

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