Ben Stein - 4th Place - $39,742 $500 + $60 Deep Stack (NL)
For what seemed like forever, chips kept going clockwise around the table with blinds surrendering to shoves until the greatest hand of the tournament so far occurred.
The four remaining players are all quiet and serious players with practically no chatter but this hand woke everyone up. It's hands like this in situations like this why we love the game.
Weiwen Liang announces he's all in for 8.9 million.
Akiva Pearlman thinks a while, is covered by Liang, and ships his 2.0 million.
Joseph Gricco folds his small blind.
Ben Stein, also covered by Liang, looks down at A-K and almost immediately says he's all in and jams 3.5 million.
So three out of our four players are all in.
Weiwen tables 8-8
Akiva tables K-J diamonds
Ben tables Ad-Kh.
We see a jack in the window giving Akiva's K-J the lead.
The jack is followed by an 8 of hearts providing Weiwen with a set.
The final flop card is the 9 of hearts giving Ben a runner, runner nut flush hope.
Flop - Jd-8h-9h
Turn is the 9 of clubs.
Weiwen celebrates the non-heart. He can taste this monster pot which will knock out two players and guarantee him a heads-up battle with Joe Gricco.
River is the 9 of spades.
The board of J-8-9-9-9 freezes everyone.
Akiva is first to realize that his full house (nines over jacks) beats Weiwen's (nines over eights) then someone yells out, "The Jack plays! The Jack plays!"
Akiva triples up.
Weiwen wins the side.
Ben Stein is out in fourth place for $39,742.
Ben was on a final table roller-coaster dropping as low as 300,000 and rising as high as 10 million.
He had the following parting words, "Usually I tend not to overreact but it doesn't help that I only got five hours of sleep in the past three days. I'm happy with my play."
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