Shamus
It folded around to Suresh Prabhu who completed from the small blind. Then Derek Buonano raised it to 23,000 from the big blind. Prabhu called. The flop came . Prabhu checked, Buonano bet 31,000, Prabhu check-raised to 72,000, Buonano reraised to 172,000, and Prabhu pushed all in for a total of 408,000.
Buonano thought for a long while. "Did you limp with a monster?" he asked. "I have an overpair." Prabhu wasn't saying. "Have you got a flush draw with the ace-jack of spades?" Still, no info.
Finally, Buonano called. Buonano didn't have an overpair actually -- he had for a pair of nines. And Prabhu did have a flush draw -- he had .
The came on the turn, giving Prabhu the lead. The river was the , and Buonano was knocked down to 120,000. Prabhu moved up to 900,000.
Shortly thereafter, Buonano pushed with ace-jack and was called by Manuel Bevant who had pocket tens. Bevant's tens held up, and Buonano is out. Bevant now has 300,000.