Lesson Costs Lerner
With only a couple of hands left in the night, Lisawad Pakinai found himself all in with against Aaron Lerner's . Pakinai was calling for spades after the flop, but the turn was even better than a spade, the . The river was a brick, and Pakinai took a chunk out of Lerner's stack. He and the Canadian pro had been at the same table all day and become quite friendly. "See, I told you'd make Day 2," Lerner joked. Pakinai looked like he felt genuinely guilty and promised to give Lerner 1% of himself. "Give it to charity," Aaron said. "Give it to the Tony Hachem IRS fund." Hachem, a few seats over, didn't laugh, but he didn't protest the idea either. After shipping 11,000 to Pakinai, Lerner had about 35,000 to take with him to Day 2.