Previously unheard of American poker player Charles Coultas was sitting in seventh place out of 97 players remaining to start Day 6 of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event. Despite not having any recorded live cashes according to the Hendon Mob in any major live poker tournaments, Coultas was in good position going into Day 6 with 4,015,000 chips to start the day. He finished in 34th place for $236,000.

Coultas’s fortunes on Day 5 began by delivering Christopher Andler a bad beat. Coultas raised pre-flop to 32,000 from the hijack. Matthias Maasberg called from the button and Andler 3bet to 204,000 from the small blind. With the action back around to Coultas, he 4bet the rest of his 466,000 in chips with A-Q.

After Maasberg folded, Andler quickly called with pocket kings. Although only 30% to win the pot, Coultas was fortunate to hit an ace on the flop and Andler’s hand did not improve on the turn or river, giving Coultas almost 1,000,000 in chips.

The biggest pot for Coultas happened later on during Day 5 when Andrew Moreno, rumored to have K-J, opened with a pre-flop raise to 45,000. Lasse Soerensen called from the cutoff with K-5 of diamonds and Coultas called from the small blind with A-10 of spades, leading to three players seeing the flop.

The flop came J-9-5 with one spade. Coultas checked with top pair and Moreno bet 79,000. Soerensen and Coultas called and the turn was the king of spades, giving Coultas a combo nut flush draw. Coultas led the action by checking the turn and Moreno fired out another continuation bet of 162,000. Soerensen called with two pair and Coultas pushed all-in, having the other two players covered.

Moreno tank-folded his rumored top two pair and Soerensen called. Coltas, with lady luck on his side, received the three of spades on the river to send Moreno to the rail and catapult Coultas to close to three million chips.