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: ![kh kh](http://msptpoker.com/ckeditor2/plugins/pokercards/images/kh.gif)
![qd qd](http://msptpoker.com/ckeditor2/plugins/pokercards/images/qd.gif)
Opponent: ![da da](http://msptpoker.com/ckeditor2/plugins/pokercards/images/da.gif)
![ks ks](http://msptpoker.com/ckeditor2/plugins/pokercards/images/ks.gif)
Carodenuto was on the verge of elimination, and there was little hope after the ![2s 2s](http://msptpoker.com/ckeditor2/plugins/pokercards/images/2s.gif)
![10d 10d](http://msptpoker.com/ckeditor2/plugins/pokercards/images/10d.gif)
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