What a ride it’s been for Wilson Yomso in Match 3! Just after falling to the short stack, the Arunachal Pradesh champion found a huge double-up through Sreekanth Narayan, snatching the chip lead right back as this three-handed battle continues here in Goa.
Here’s how the fireworks happened: Wilson Yomso opened the action from the small blind, making it 15,000 to go holding a monster pair, . In the big blind, Sreekanth Narayan, who held the chip lead, decided to apply maximum pressure and shoved all-in for his entire stack of 150,500 with . Yomso couldn’t have called faster, putting his tournament life on the line with the dominant pocket queens.
It was a cooler situation, with Narayan needing one of the two remaining sixes to score the knockout. The dealer ran out the board: on the flop… the on the turn… and the on the river.
The board stayed clean for Yomso! His pocket Queens held up, dodging any danger. He raked in a massive pot, doubling up and flipping the dynamics once again.
Chip Counts
Wilson Yomso – 127,000
Sreekanth Narayan – 89,500
What a swing! It’s still a close three-handed fight between Yomso, Narayan, and Tumboli, with crucial leaderboard points and those valuable bounties hanging in the balance!