Vineet Pahuja has been coming to Playground for big events on and off for over 5 years now, and both he and his brother Mukul have achieved a great deal of success here on the felts near Montreal. Mukul has already qualified for Day 2 with 109,000, and now Vineet is playing Live flights to try and join him.
We missed most of the preflop betting action, but by the time action got to Vineet in the bb, he was getting the remainder of his approximately 10K stack in the middle, finding a call from the utg player and a fold from the sb, who had presumably called the utg players opening limp. The sb folded to the all in and call, and the players’ cards were exposed:
Vineet:
utg player:
It was a pretty classic set piece in poker, and the Aces held on a board that read: