Nov 15, 2017
Hand #93 – David Peters raises UTG+1 to 130,000, Eric Afriat calls from the hijack, and Mohammad Abu-Hadbah (pictured) calls from the button.
The flop comes , Peters checks, Afriat bets 200,000, and Abu-Hadbah moves all in for 910,000.
Peters folds, and Afriat calls with for a pair of jacks. Abu-Hadbah turns over for a club flush draw with a gutshot straight draw, and he needs to improve to stay alive.
The turn card is the , the river card is the , and Afriat wins the pot with two pair, aces and jacks, to eliminate Abu-Hadbah in eighth place.
Eric Afriat – 3,450,000 (58 bb)
Mohammad Abu-Hadbah – Eliminated in 8th Place (CAD $51,150)
Afriat finished Day 3 with 2.4 million in chips, and he started Day 4 on a big downswing that saw him become the short stack with 13 players left. With this hand, Afriat has finally recovered enough to beat his start-of-day stack, though the blinds are 3x higher now (30K-60K) than they were nine-and-a-half hours ago (10K-20K).