Joe Gualtieri Triples Up with Quad Queens

Cate Hall raises from the cutoff to 12,500, and Joe Gualtieri (pictured) moves all in from the button for 40,000. David Quang calls from the small blind, and Freddy Deeb tanks for a long time in the big blind before he folds. (Deeb has a stack of about 85,000.) Hall calls, and any further betting will create a side pot between Quang and Hall.

Quang and Hall check all the way down to the river on a board of , and Gualtieri says, “Two pair.” Quang shows for two pair, queens and eights, but Gualtieri turns over for quad queens. (As in the old saying, “I have a pair of queens, and I have the other pair of queens.”) Hall mucks, but since it is in all-in situation, the dealer flips over her cards to reveal them to the table — . Gualtieri wins the pot to triple up in chips.

Joe Gualtieri  –  127,000  (25 bb)
David Quang  –  160,000  (32 bb)
Cate Hall  –  145,000  (29 bb)
Freddy Deeb  –  85,000  (17 bb)