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David Daneshgar just barely managed to squeak into the money. He lost almost all of his chips earlier in the bubble, running pocket kings into pocket aces. That loss left him with just 1,500 chips, but Patrick Stemper (the player whose middle set was out-turned by a flush) was also short. The two players wound up all in before the deal on the same hand, but at different tables. Stemper was all in from the small blind; Daneshgar was all in for the ante.

Stemper wound up heads up against one player who had raised preflop with {7-Hearts}

. Stemper turned over {Q-Diamonds}

, but didn't connect with a board of {10-Hearts}

. He was eliminated; that meant that Daneshgar would, at worst, chop 63rd place with Stemper. He was freerolling for the whole thing.

At Daneshgar's table, Nenad Medic raised preflop and was called by Dan Lu. The two players checked a flop of {2-Clubs}

; Medic tried a bet of 20,000 on the {3-Hearts}

turn, but Lu called. Both players checked the {8-Hearts}

river. Lu took down the side pot with {A-Clubs}

, just ace high; Daneshgar squeezed out {Q-Hearts}

for trip threes and the winning hand.

"David's eight-tupled up," joked Matt Savage. Indeed he did. More importantly, all of the 63rd-place money will go to him. With that, play is done for the night.

Tags: David Daneshgar Patrick Stemper

2009 L.A. Poker Classic

2009 L.A. Poker Classic

Patrick Stemper is the Bubble Boy