Lunkin Caught in a Pickle
Disaster would find Thompson on the turn though, as the ripped off the deck to improve Lunkin to the leading tens full of eights. The at-risk Russian needed only to fade the final seven in the deck to double up... but he could not fade it! Like a bolt of lightning, the struck the river to re-improve Thompson to the winning quad sevens, notching a knockout in the most unlikely of fashions.