Kevin Eyster, who won the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $1,587,382 back in December, raised to 1,100 from the cutoff and Aleksei Platonov called from the button. Both blinds folded, the flop came down , and Eyster bet 1,400.
Platonov made the call, the dealer burned and turned the , and Eyster led out for 3,600. Platonov raised to 8,100, Eyster made the call, and it was off to the
river, which both players checked.
Eyster tabled the for a missed straight, and Platonov revealed the
for two pair and the win.