In December, the fifth edition of the prestigious $300,000-buy-in Super High Roller Bowl took place in Las Vegas. The tournament drew 36 of the world’s best players, who put their skills on display on PokerGO’s worldwide broadcast.

There were some big hands played, including one that ended a player’s tournament in brutal fashion.

With the blinds at 3,000-5,000 plus a 5,000 ante, Alex Foxen raised the button to 14,000 with his 8h 7h, and Sean Winter three-bet to 55,000 out of the big blind. Foxen called, and it was heads-up action to the 6c 3d 9h flop.

You might be wondering why Foxen called the reraise with his mediocre hand. These days, especially at the highest levels of poker, it’s pretty standard for players to call three-bets with suited connectors. The reason is that more and more players are opening with a wider range, so the competition is reraising with lighter hands. Instead of folding, original raisers tend to lean toward defending and seeing a flop.

There was a time in poker where a three-bet almost always indicated a big pocket pair, but those days are long gone. In today’s high-stakes games, players often three-bet with hands such as A-10, K-Q, etc., so reraises don’t always indicate strength.

Winter continued for 60,000, and Foxen called to see the Qh turn. Winter bet again, this time 145,000, and Foxen raised all in. Winter called off his remaining 493,000 holding 9c 9s for a set, which was ahead of Foxen’s open-ended straight and flush draws.

“The turn is the queen of hearts, giving me a lot of outs against pretty much anything, and he bets 145,000 into (a pot of) 220,000,” Foxen said of the hand. “At this point, I think that it’s a pretty close decision between just calling and realizing all the equity that my hand has.”

After weighing the options, Foxen opted to shove.

“In this spot,” Foxen said, “I know Sean is someone who makes some pretty incredible folds. I definitely don’t think that he’s someone who would’ve called here with worse than a set, so I’m pretty much trying to get aces and kings to fold. He had a set, but we had a backup plan against a set, so that’s how it worked out.”

When the chips went in, Winter was a 70.5 percent favorite to win the hand while Foxen had a 29.6 percent chance of hitting the river. The dealer burned and turned, putting out the 10s on the river to give Foxen the straight. Just like that Winter went from odds-on favorite to being out of the tournament.

That hand propelled Foxen to the top of the chip counts, and he went on to finish second to Isaac Haxton, winning more than $2.1 million. As tournament champion, Haxton walked away with more than $3.6 million.