John Krpan has been extremely patient, playing a short and then very short stack for some time in the tournament including significant stretches yesterday and again today. As the blinds rolled towards him he has well under 100K left but on his bb nevertheless managed to find a fold to Pascal’s utg raise.
But with just 59K in chips left when John was in the sb there were no more folds left to find. Robert Taylor raised in middle position to 54K and John added his last 37K in chips to the 12K he already had in as the small blind. To make things interesting, Pascal called Robert’s 54K and the hand was 3-way with a 10K side pot between Robert and Pascal.
The flop was dealt: 
and Pascal thought for a moment before putting out a bet. Robert folded, but only after saying “You’d better have it…”
Pascal had it. He turned over 
for a flopped straight, which was well ahead of John’s improbable 
and when the turn 
was dealt the hand was over. The river was the 
.
11th place: John Krpan, $17,290.00
John Krpan