We arrived as a huge hand was starting to brew between Michael Pitcher, in the Small Blind, and Marcel Basset, sitting in Seat 1 in the UTG +1 position.
Marcel had raised to 52K and Michael re-raised to 162K. Marcel didn’t tank for long at all before he 4-bet to 462K, and Michael responded immediately: “All In”. Marcel didn’t even ask for a count before he called and flipped over – which he knew were being met with . Marcel covered Michael by at least 300K, and he seemed resigned to his fate.
The board didn’t agree, though, and on the flop Michael was in trouble as it came out to give Marcel the set, and the and that made up the rest of the board were no help to Michael, who left the tournament in 47th place.
Marcel, on the other hand, is the clear chip leader in the tournament with 2.1M in chips.