Alex Difelice had been strongly soldiering along, never the big stack but never under threat either, until a run of two hands cut him down and sent him to the rail.
The first of the two hands opened with a raise to 22K from Darren Elias, which was met by a raise all-in from Ajay Gnanasambanthan, who just previously had been muscled out of a couple of pots. Action folded around to Alex, who as quickly as possible shoved all in for more. Nothing more was required to see Darren fold his hand.
The two players’ hole cards were turned over:
Alex:
Ajay:
There was little suspense on the flop of followed by the and Alex shipped most of his stack over to Ajay.
Just a minute later the same two players were all in with Alex holding the against Ajay’s .
The community cards did nothing for Alex: and Ajay’s Queen high was good.