As the clock winds down on Day 2B, Van Hoa Le just got a new lease on his tournament life thanks to a triple up in a dramatic three-way all in.
With the blinds at 15K/30K, following an opening raise to 75K, Derek Walters found a good spot to try to double up his short stack and moved all-in. Immediately to his left, Van Hoa Le, who was only playing 400K at the time, decided to isolate and moved his stack in. The action folded around to Brian Piccioli, in the big blind with enough chips to cover both opponents, joined them and moved all-in. This action put the initial raiser, Sean Ruane, in a pretty tough spot, to say the least. Ruane spent a while in the tank before finally deciding to wait for a better situation and hands were tabled.
Derek Wolters, confident he had the best hand, was the first to turn over his cards, revealing 
. Le calmly tabled his 
and Piccioli showed his 
. The flop, 
, put Le in the lead and his sigh of relief was heard around the table. The turn, 
, and river, 
, had no impact on the results of the flop, and Le got to stacking his new chips.