Donald Abdelhay, who’s known somewhat of a rocky road today has been trying hard to keep his head above the water, and doing a pretty good job. We arrived at table #31 to see the first of what was going to be three consecutive all in’s for Donald.
The first hand involved Donald, Alexandros Charitos and Yaseen Siddiqui. The three gentlemen got the betting out of the way by going all in preflop. Alexandros was first, Donald second and Yaseen quickly followed. The three players tabled their hands:
Yaseen, who easily covered both his opponents showed 
Alexandros, who had the least amount of chips tabled 
Donald threw down 
The dealer made short work of getting all the community cards out: 
Short stack Alexandros scooped up the main pot plus 13,500 from both other players for his set of ten`s. This left Donald, happy with his kicker and with his 18,300 chips, so no one was eliminated in this hand.
The next hand proved uneventful as Donald shoved his 18.3K stack forward, making every other player fold.
In the third hand, however, Donald pushed his ever-growing stack forward and got called by Yaseen Siddiqui again and also by Alon Messica. The flop came out: 
. Yaseen check-folded to Alon’s relatively small 6,100 bet. As soon as Yaseen folded, Donald held both his cards face forward in the air and said (to us): “if you are going to write up one of my hands, it might as well be this one!” and let his 
drop on the felt. Seeing trip Kings for Donald, Alon wanted to muck his hand, but had to turn it over, as per tournament rules: 
, almost running dead. Only the last 2 aces could save him, but the 
and on the turn and river sealed his fate, and a smiling Donald Abdelhay scooped up the chips again. “It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings”, one of the players whispered. We have some ways to go, since technically the famous Fat Lady will only be singing Sunday night, at the end of Day 3, but everyone agreed.
