Two Players Come Out on Top in a Three-Way All-In, Then Bust Shortly After

Photo:  Rick Weldon (left) and James Pilpa

There is a three-way preflop all in at Table 39, with chipleader James Pilpa in the small blind covering two short stacks. Here are their cards in descending order of chip counts:

James Pilpa:  
Hijack (16,900):  
Cutoff (11,500):  

The board comes , and the board misses all three players. The cutoff triples up with his ace-queen, and the hijack wins a smaller side pot to stay alive.

Cutoff  –  38,000  (19 bb)
Hijack  –  11,000  (6 bb)
James Pilpa  –  145,000  (73 bb)

A couple hands later, the player that was in the hijack moves all in under the gun for 10,200, and Guido Campellone moves all in over the top UTG+1 with . His opponent turns over , and needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes , and Campellone wins the pot with two pair, aces and sevens, to eliminate his opponent from Day 1C.

Guido Campellone  –  86,000  (43 bb)

The next hand, the player who tripled up at the top of this post raises under the gun to 2,000, Rick Weldon reraises from middle position to 8,500, and the first player calls.

The flop comes , the under-the-gun player checks, Weldon bets 15,000, and the under-the-gun player moves all in for about 29,000.

Weldon calls with for a pair of queens, and the under-the-gun player turns over for a pair of threes.

The turn card is the , the river card is the , and Weldon wins the pot with his pair of queens to eliminate his opponent from Day 1C.

Rick Weldon  –  181,000  (91 bb)

So at the end of all this, the two players who won the three-way all-in situation at the top of this post were both eliminated shortly after that.