Ship It To Rubie!
We walked over to Brendon Rubie's table to see that he had a bet of 2,300 laid out in front of him with about 4,000 chips in the pot on a flop of . An opponent had checked to him and Rubie fired his bet. After Rubie bet, the player moved all in. Although this isn't that big of a deal, what was a big deal was the fact that the all-in shove was worth 42,250. If Rubie were to call, he'd be putting his 33,450-chip stack in the middle.
Rubie tanked for a couple minutes. Eventually, Aaron Benton stopped by to check in on Rubie and saw what was going on. Rubie began talking to him from across the table and told Benton that he was holding the . If it were true, Rubie was holding an open-ended straight flush draw. Benton looked surprised by both the size of the shove and also how much thought Rubie was giving to his hand. Rubie talked about how he was unsure if he wanted to risk it, but if he won it'd be such a big pot. Eventually, he stacked up his chips and stuffed them in the middle.
The was revealed from Rubie's hand, showing that he was telling the truth about what he held. His opponent held the for a big draw as well and Rubie expressed his dislike about seeing that type of hand from his opponent.
The turn brought the and Rubie needed to fade one more card. The river card was the and Rubie improved to trip eights. He was all in for 33,450 and with that pot, boosted his stack to a field-leading 71,000 chips.