Darren Elias Wins a Race to Knock Out a Player

Photo:  Darren Elias has won more WPT titles (four) than anyone else in history. Elias also has the career lead in WPT final tables (13) and WPT cashes (45).

D.J. Alexander raises under the gun to 2,700, the player in the cutoff reraises to 6,800, and Darren Elias four-bets all in from the button for about 72,000.

Alexander folds, and the cutoff quickly calls all in for about 25,000 with .

Elias turns over , and it’s a race situation.

The board comes , and Elias flops a pair of kings to the cutoff’s gutshot straight draw. The turn and river change nothing, and Elias wins the pot with two pair, kings and nines, to eliminate his opponent.

Darren Elias  –  101,000  (84 bb)
D.J. Alexander  –  47,000  (39 bb)