Carl Carodenuto opened for 6,500 under the gun only to have an opponent three-bet to 17,000 from the cutoff. The button and blinds all folded, and then Carodenuto thought for a minute or so before moving all in for 36,700 total. His opponent snap-called.

Carodenuto:

Opponent:

Carodenuto was on the verge of elimination, and there was little hope after the flop and . However, as you can tell from the title of this post, the river was kind to him as the spiked to keep his title defense alive!

Carl Carodenuto - 80,000