We just witnessed a huge hand on table 50 which has most likely vaulted the winner into the chip lead in today’s flight of the Main Event.
We arrived at the table preflop as Serge Pouliot’s all-in bet was being counted on request of the next player to act, Brian Wang. It turns out that Serge had just over 74K, and Brian just flat called from the cutoff. The button and blinds all folded, and action was back on the initial raiser in the hand, Debra Ann Holman (who had open raised to 5K to get this all started).
At first, Debra Ann wasn’t sure that the action was on her, and when this was clarified, a few seconds later Serge called time – though not enough time had yet elapsed for the dealer to administer a 60-second clock. Debra Ann wasn’t happy, though, and she said, “just for that, I’m going to call too” – and pushed her whole (shorter) stack in the middle.
With all action completed, the players tabled their hands:
Debra Ann: 
Serge: 
Brian: 
Any doubt as to the result was extinguished almost immediately on the 
flop, which was followed by the turn 
. This renewed some of Brian’s hopes for the hand and he pleaded for a Queen, but it was not to be as the safe 
fell on the river.
Serge didn’t quite triple, but he increased his stack to just about the 200K mark, which puts him among the chip leaders so far.
