Cheong Shoves, Lawson Tanks
A juicy pot of 18,650 was cooked up between November Niner Joseph Cheong and Ted Lawson on the final board of . Cheong shoved the river for 18,800 and Lawson went into the tank. We actually arrived to the table with all of this action already complete. Jason Mercier was standing behind his chair and wrote on a notepad, "Tanking for 10 minutes!" Lawson was in the tank when we got there and sat there for a couple more minutes before finally tossing his cards into the muck. Cheong scooped the pot and moved to 37,450 while Lawson decreased to 23,500.