LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two-time World Series of Poker champion Johnny Chan has been eliminated from the no-limit Texas Hold ’em main event after two hands where he gambled pocket pairs against pocket aces, the game’s best starting hand.
The 10-time gold bracelet winner immortalized in the 1998 movie “Rounders” lost the last of his chips with pocket jacks on Thursday. The community cards missed Chan and his opponent, and the aces held.
Chan won $57,102 for 156th place in the tournament that started with 7,319 players. The top prize is $8.94 million.
Chan started the day ninth in chips, but lost most of them soon after the sixth session started with pocket kings.
Chan says he doesn’t think he could have folded the kings, even though his opponent turned up pocket aces.
