We were circling the tables when all of a sudden some yelps, hoots and hollers got our attention. Our arrival at the table was just in time to get the tail-end of a memorable hand.
The action before our arrival was unclear, but one thing was clear: Jean-François Stoycheff was happy. Three hands were face-up, obviously three all-ins.
Jean-François, shortest stack, was in for 20,725 with 
.
In the middle, with 
and 33,675 was Dan Vigderhous.
And last but not least, wast Pierre Audette, holding 
and covering both bets.
The flop must have made Dan cringe and JF & Pierre very happy: 
. Dan needed a queen, but not just any queen, only the spade would do, giving him a boat and avoiding the royal flush. As for Pierre, he just wanted do dodge everything. Obviously, with the title of this blog it’s easy to guess what happened next. The 
made an appearance, and changed everything. Including breaking the normal poker-room buzz of chips shuffling and chit chat with that of exclamations and surprise. Nobody noticed, nor cared about the 
on the river, but we thought we’d mention it.
So Jean-François triples-up with his Royal Flush, and Dan gets his extra 12,950 paid by Pierre. No bounty chips were exchanged and everyone played on.
