Ranbir More has spent some time near the top of the leaderboard since the bubble burst, but his stack had dwindled to just 1.1M until this huge hand on table 24 gave him a much-needed boost. The hand ended up being a 3-way all in and it could end up having huge implications for the balance of the tourney.
Ranbir opened the action with a preflop raise to 100K from the hijack, which was instantly met with a raise to 275K by Sam Chartier, directly to his left in the cutoff. Action folded around to Joao Vitor Petenel in the bb, who made the call. Action was back on the original raiser, Ranbir, who, without much delay at all, decided to shove all-in for his last 1M.
Sam covered both players by a wide margin – he had picked up well over 1.5M compared with the stack we counted just a half hour previous. He decided to use that stack and any fold equity it gave him by going all in over the top of Ranbir. Joao Vitor made the call anyhow, and it was a three-way all in. The hole cards were exposed.
Ranbir: 
Sam: 
Joao Vitor: 
Joao Vitor let out a yell on the 
flop – not noticing that while he had made a set of Jacks, Ranbir had hit his own set of Kings! Sam could only watch with little to hope for, and then nothing following the turn 
. The river was a meaningless 
– Ranbir had tripled up!
Notwithstanding having shipped 1.1M to Ranbir and another 750K to Joao Vitor, Sam is still playing a top-5 stack in the event at this point, and clearly he has more than enough experience to deal with an outcome like this.
