When we first arrived on table 20, there were a lot of chips in the middle as the river was being dealt. Matthew Willard fired a blue 5K chip when a 2nd King hit the river, and Alexandre Cousineau, a dealer here at Playground who has joined a few of his dealer colleagues to play today’s event, looked at him, then looked again at his hole cards, and then went deep into the tank. Finally, after thinking through the story being told to him, he made the call.
Willard opened up a pair of 4’s, and Alexandre then opened up his hand: he had hit the 5 on the flop, and with 4 over cards showing, he made the gutsy call and took down the pot.
Willard was left with only 3200 chips and open shoved the next hand. He had a call from both Sebastien Dion and Alexandre Cousineau. JF Stoycheff, was also itching to get into the hand, and whispered that he might regret having folded his cards.
The flop came 
and action between Cousineau and Dion went check-check. The turn brought the 
and again we saw check-check. The river was the 
, and one more time, check-check.
Willard smiled as he opened his hand: 
, having turned the flush and rivering the nuts. As short stacked players know, nothing can be funner than going runner-runner.
This put Willard back in position to continue on with a very playable stack.
