Event 17: O'Donoghue Heater

$1,000 + $90 Six-Max No Limit Hold'em (Re-Entry)

Blinds 5k/10k/1k ante

After dropping to 250k, Brian O'Donoghue is all in with  K♦ K♠ against the pocket 6s of Alex Rocha.

Flop: Q♠ 6♦ 5♦ (Rocha set)
Turn: 8♦ (O'Donoghue flush draw)
River:4♦

The river diamond gives O'Donoghue the winning flush and doubles his stack to 500k, while Rocha drops to 730k.


A few hands later, O'Donoghue is all in and at risk with AK against the AJ of David Randall. He gets another double-up to take his stack to 1 million. Randall drops to less than 100k and is out the next hand.

"He just decided to go on a heater," says Rocha, "that's how you go from 250k to a million."