Big Stax 300 (Day 1C): Big Hands Before Dinner

Level 10 (Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante)
1C Entries: 851 (1,733 total)

Gossweiler Gets River Help

Two hands before the dinner break worth noting included a bad beat and a three-way all in where pocket Aces hold for a huge pot.

Joe Gossweiler (Roseland, NJ) and his opponent are all in on a flop of J♠ 10♠ 7x:

Gossweiler: 9♠ 8♠ (straight, OE straight flush draw)
Opponent: Tx Tx (set of Tens)

Turn: Tx (opponent quad Tens)

River: 7♠

Gossweiler rivers a straight flush against Quad Tens to get a double-up for a 150k chip pot.  His opponent was left with 12k and Gossweiler eventually knocked him out.

Across the Clubhouse there's a three-way all in with Jonathan Paul (Easton, PA) holding pocket rockets.

Paul: AA
Player 2: QQ
Player 3: A9

The board runs out 9-5-4-3-A and Gossweiler's set of Aces wins a 245k pot as all three players had healthy stacks.

Paul Picks Up Huge Pot with Aces