With three players remaining at the final table of Event #22: $25,000 NLH 6-Max – and $1,743,717 up top for the eventual winner, along with the bracelet – Jared Bleznick and Chris Moorman tangled in a pot with massive implications for not only the two of them but also short-stacked Blaz Zerjav.
'I'm dead, I'm out'
When the clash ensued, Moorman held the chip lead – his 20.9M chips to Bleznick's 17.9M to Zerjav's 11.4M at the 150K/300K blind level – and raised from the button to 600K with 
. Bleznick peeled 
in the small blind and quickly three-bet to 2.5M. Zerjav relinquished his holding from the big blind, but Moorman had plenty of chips to play with and the right type of hand to crack a big pocket pair.
After taking a moment or two to consider his options, Moorman matched the raise and the dealer spread the 
flop. With 5.6M in the pot, Bleznick took his time before firing out a bet of 3.5M – laying Moorman a decent price to chase his open-ended straight draw. After a few seconds of thought, the Brit matched the bet. On the turn 
, Moorman made the nut straight – no waiting necessary – and locked up the pot entirely.
Bleznick, now drawing completely dead, had around a pot-sized bet remaining in his stack and he quickly moved all-in. Moorman called the all-in bet just as quickly and tabled the nuts.
"Let's go!" he exclaimed to his rail.
"I'm dead, I'm out," Bleznick told his supporters as he wandered over to them for a Hellmuthian diatribe. "He got so lucky. Unbelievable."
With the win, Moorman surged into a nearly 4-to-1 chip lead over Zerjav – a lead that didn't last too long, however, as the Slovenian made a quick comeback and ultimately won the event.
