American poker player Joshua Thibodaux had a week to remember and a moment to forget at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Thibodaux paid $1500 to enter the 'Millionaire-Maker' tournament, where 8,809 players entered and first place took home $2,006,000.
And after five days of play, with fiveplayers remaining, Thibodaux was sitting pretty. He was coming second, and held a large chip-advantage over three of the remaining players.
The one thing Thibodaux didn't want to do, was mess with Kazuki Ikeuchi, the tournament chip leader. It could cost him millions.
Here is what the final payouts were: 1st: $2,006,000 2nd: $1,270,000 3rd: $952,546 4th: $714,352 5th: $538,670
Hand #102: Kazuki Ikeuchi raised to 3.5 million under the gun and Thibodaux called from the button. Both blinds folded and it was heads up to the {k-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{k-Hearts} flop. Ikeuchi bet 3.3 million, Thibodaux called, and the dealer burned and turned the {10-Hearts}.
Thibodaux picked the wrong time to make a move as he was drawing dead. The meaningless {2-Clubs} was run out on the river and Ikeuchi raked in the massive pot to give him a 112bb stack while the other three players are all sitting under 10 bigs each.
Social media was unforgiving.
One of the worst all ins I have ever seen. Well done.
By aggressively getting into it with the chip leader, Thibodaux likely cost himself over one million dollars in equity. But it's also likely that aggressive nature that got him to the final table.
