We just saw a huge hand between Mike Leah, the chip leader to start the day, and Mukul Pahuja, who just moved to the table.
Mike opened to 10K from the highjack and Mukul 3-bet to 23K from the button. Action was back on Mike, who went all-in for 175K more.
Mike:
Mukul:
The board runout gave Mike a pair on the flop: but the turn and river didn’t bring the suckout and Mukul stacked the chips.
On the very next hand, Mukul opened the action preflop from the cutoff. On a board of , he called Matthew Grocholsky’s bets on all three streets, including his river shove of 100K – only to table the nut flush, .
Mukul has effectively doubled up on the two hands, and is now the clear chip leader in the tournament with around 800K.