Firestone Skids
Level 20
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Mario Adinolfi got his last 110,000 chips into the pot preflop in bad shape, running his into the of Robert Firestone. Things would improve for Adinolfi, however.
The looked like a darn good one for the Italian at first, but a second glance sees the Royal Flush draw Firestone had flopped.
"I folded the king of spades," Tome Moreira announced.
No matter. The case dropped right on fourth street, and that robbed nearly all of Firestone's outs. He needed to find the and only the to make the winning hand, but the river was not it.
That blank river marks a much-needed double for Adinolfi, while the loss knocks Firestone back to about 345,000.