Event 8: Interesting Happenings

$260 + 40 Ladies No Limit Hold'em

With 19 players remaining, and being one from the money, we had a very interested situation.  It folded around to the blinds, who were two of the bigger stacks in remaining in the tournament.  The small blind open shoved for over 150k, and was called by Claire Chiang (Chandler, AZ) from the big blind.  The small blind tabled a pair of three's, while Claire showed A K.  Chiang took the lead with a king on the flop and never relinquished it.  So with a handful of stacks with less than eight big blinds, the two big stacks tangle, and Chiang takes a dominating chip lead in the event.

*After that hand, the player who was crippled tripled up, still leaving us on the bubble.