"You Can Just Call Him Mystic River"

CPPT Main Event (Day 2)

Level 31 (50,000/100,000/10,000)
Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 2
Chip Average: 4,200,000

Dilipkumar Patel (Milwaukee, WI)

There's a fine line between slow playing your monster hands and playing them aggressively, especially heads up, as you don't want to end the hand "too soon" as you want your opponent to get a piece of the flop to extract some value.

But, you don't expect your opponent to get so much of a flop, which is exactly just happened as Fred Paradis looked poised to claim this Card Player Poker Tour Main Event title until the river saved Dilipkumar Patel.

The action was picked up on a flop of [7h][5d][10h] with Paradis check-raising Dilipkumar's continuation bet.

Patel would then announce himself "all-in" and Paradis would snap call and turn over [10c][5s] for top and bottom pair.

Patel would table [Ad][As] and would need to hit to save his tournament life.

The turn would bring the [Kc] and Patel would either need the board to pair, other than a ten or a five of course, or an ace on the river and he'd get the latter as the [Ah] spiked to prolong this heads up battle.

Patel needed that double up more than anything as he was extremely short stacked compared to Fred Paradis and while he most likely had visions of getting a full double when he looked down at his rockets, he didn't think he'd have to spike a set on the river to do so.

Patel's rail would laugh as they've been calling him nicknames all day and they'd make it clear that they would only be referring to him as "mystic river" from now on as he's somehow still alive for this CPPT Main Event title.

Our two remaining players are basically now back to where they started this heads up battle, dead even in chips.