Shooting Star crash landing

[melanoman]

Blinds are $1000-$2000 with a $300 ante.
Folded to the Small Blind, Robert Cheung, who raises to $13500.
Big Blind, Mel Nicholson , raises to $40000.
Cheung reraises all-in to $87500
Nicholson calls
Cheung reveals AsKh
Nicholson reveals KdKc
flop Jd9cAd
turn 10d
river 3c
Cheung wins $177700

[ed: now I fold the next 23 hands nursing a seriously wounded stack. Ralph Perry is a habitual bluffer]

Blinds are at $1200-2400 with a $400 ante.
Folded to cutoff, Ralph Perry, who raises to $9000
Small Blind, Mel Nicholson , reraises all-in to $32500
Perry calls
Nicholson reveals QsQd
Perry reveals AhQh
flop Kd4s8c
turn 10s
river Ac
Perry wins $71000
Nicholson is eliminated in 48th place