Meyburg's Jacks Survive
Everyone was moving to leave in order to make the move to the feature table, where the last nine players were due to be reassembled following a redraw. It folded to Vitaly Tolokonnikov in the big blind, who surprised everyone by saying he was calling.
The EPT camera crew set up to shoot the showdown, and Tolonnikov informed Meyburg he held ace-eight. "No good," said Meyburg. "No?" said Tolonnikov. "What... do you think I go all in with seven-deuce?" said Meyburg. Finally, the pair tabled their cards:
Tolonnikov
Meyburg
The board came
, and Meyburg moves up past 330,000. Tolonnikov, meanwhile, will start the nine-handed table with 247,000.