Darren Elias is far and away one of the most experienced and skilled players left in the tournament, but he had gotten very short-stacked and was looking for good spots to move all in to try and build back up. And build back up he did.
Chris Arvanitis made a min-raise+ preflop and Michael Dentale just called, aware that Elias was both short and in the big blind. As they predicted, Darren moved in for his last 300K. He found a call from both Chris and Michael.
There was a possible side pot between Chris and Michael so cards were not exposed right away and the flop was dealt:
. Both Chris and Michael elected to check. The turn was the
and the action again went check-check. The turn
had the same outcome and all three players exposed their hands:
Darren:
Chris:
Mike:
Darren ended up stacking 915,000, enough for 23bb.