A player opens the action with a raise to 13,000 in early position. Looking down at on the button, Patrice Sitbon reraises to 40,000. Next to act is Patryk Hildebranski in the small blind, and he comes back over the top, moving all in for a total of 228,500. The original raiser folds. Sitbon asks for a full count, and as soon as he learns the number, he immediately makes the call. Hildebranski tables , and is in bad shape for his tournament life.
Patryk looks at the dealer and asks him, "You have an ace, bro?" Sure enough, the dealer obliges and spreads out on the flop, pushing Hildbranski into the lead. Even better, fourth street is the , locking up the pot and doubling the young player up to about 475,000. "Thank you, mister dealer," he says as he begins to re-stack his chips.
Sitbon, meanwhile, has taken two big hits in the last five minutes, and he has fallen back under the half-million mark.