Sampo Ryynanen Flies into The Lead

Sampo Ryynanen has a monster stack on the Phil Hellmuth table. We just had a little chat with the Finnish player and he told us that his huge stack is the net result of the eliminations of Tim Reilly and Alfonso Amendola.

Reilly departed after getting the chips in on a [6x] [4x] [2x] (2 x diamond flop) holding [Td] [5d], while Ryynanen was holding [Ad] [Kd]. Then Amendola was crippled in a flip [Ax] [Kx] v [Qx] [Qx] before being eliminated in the following hand.

Ryynanen opens in early position, Amendola moves all-in and Ryynanen calls.

Showdown

Ryynanen: [Ks] [Td]
Amendola: [As] [Qd]

The flop [9h] [8h] [5h] keeps the lead for Amendola, the turn [Qs] increases the lead but the river is a killer. The [Jh] handing Rynnanen the straight and Amendola was chasing the footsteps of Reilly.

Rynnanen ~ 190,000