Englishman John Hesp has driven the narrative for the past several days in the 2017 World Series of Poker main event, as he accumulated both a massive chip stack and an enthusiastic following as one of the final nine players fighting for $8.15 million and poker's world championship.
It was only appropriate, then, that Hesp would be the driving force behind one of the most stunning hands of poker in recent memory on the first day of the final table -- a 156 million chip pot against Scott Blumstein that took the popular Hesp from first place to the brink of elimination.