Event 134: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee

Level 30
Blinds: 50,000/100,000/10,000
Players Remaining: 6/637
Average Stack: 2,125,000

Frankie Flowers’ run as one of the chip leaders is done for the time being. An ill-timed river payoff against Jeff Battaglia leaves Flowers with under 15 big blinds midway through Level 30.

Flowers opened the cutoff for a standard raise and Battaglia defended his big blind. Both players checked the K♥10♣3♠ flop and Battaglia took the lead for 400,000 on the 9♠ turn. Flowers called and Battaglia bet 800,000 more on the A♦ river.

With about twice that behind, Flowers tanked for five minutes announcing that he put Battaglia on queen-jack. Despite every instinct in Flowers saying he should fold (his words), he called to see Battaglia roll over Q♠J♥.

Battaglia extends his lead and Flowers needs some water to help his sub-10 big blind stack.

Jeff Battaglia – 4,765,000
Frankie Flowers – 825,000