Phillips Double A Player Up
There's never a good time to double an opponent up but it's especially bad as the tournament closes in on the money bubble. With more than 100,000 chips in the pot already, Carter Phillips bet 63,000 on a board of . His opponent then moved all in for 215,000 more. Phillips eventually made the call with , a pair of eights. His opponent tabled , a pair of queens. That hand left Phillips looking for one of the two remaining eights on the river. The board did pair, but it paired sevens, .
After paying off the double-up Phillips' count was down to 225,000.