We just caught up with Vincent van der Fluit who called down a player with pocket aces. Van der Fluit choose a passive line and called down on a board as his opponent kept firing. On the turn he called 2,700 and the river bet was 5,600. Van der Fluit's opponent showed pocket kings and raked in the pot.
The Dutchman is down to 16,000 chips while his good friend Bryan Ruiter is back up to 10,000. Ruiter had a good start and was up to 44,000 early on but lost a lot with kings to aces and a failed bluff.
A player from early position raised to 525 and the hijack seat called. The cutoff seat also called and then action moved over to Sam Trickett in the small blind. He three-bet to 2,525. The original raiser reraised to 5,300 and the hijack seat and cutoff seat folded. Trickett called.
The flop came down and Trickett check-called a bet of 5,600 to see the land on the turn. Both players checked and the river completed the board with the . Trickett bet a small 3,000 and his opponent took some time.
"Milking me?" said the player as he tossed in the call.
Trickett turned over the , but lost to his opponent's and dropped back under the starting stack amount.
Phil Ivey was faced with a bet of 1,050 on the flop and made the call to see the peel off on the turn. After his opponent checked, Ivey bet 3,000. The player made the call.
The river completed the board with the and paired it with rockets. The first player checked and then Ivey checked behind.
Ivey's opponent showed for trip aces and Ivey mucked his hand.
With the flop in the middle, Jai Kemp bet 2,000 after his opponent checked. The player then check-raised to 4,500, but Kemp wasn't going anywhere just yet. He took his time and then reraised to 9,500. The player mucked and Kemp won the pot.
On the board, Nacho Barbero checked and Michael Guttman bet 5,500. After a bit of time in the tank, Michael Pedley made the call and the Barbero folded. Guttman told Pedley he didn't have it and tabled the for queen high. Pedley showed the for kings and sevens and won the pot.
The cards are back in the air with Level 4. After this level, the players will take their 75-minute dinner break before returning to play through the end of Level 7 tonight.
Melanie Weisner is in the field today on her own dime, but she's trying to change that right now; she is currently upstairs in Studio 3 with Tony G and a unicycle.
Two days ago, The G issued a challenge that if Weisner could ride the unicycle for two laps around a poker table, he'd freeroll her into the Main Event. The lady intended to play Day 1b yesterday, but she chose to spend a few hours at the circus of all places, getting some pointers and practice runs from those most comfortable on the one-wheeled bike.
We'll let you know how it pans out for Weisner when she gets back to the tournament in a few minutes. Hopefully still in one piece. And hopefully freerolling courtesy of Tony G.
While we haven't seen Joe Hachem join the action, but his brother Tony was already forced to leave the tournament. We caught Hachem on the rail and he brought us up to speed with the hands he lost. It went down like this:
Hachem raised to 550 with and got called by three players. The flop came down with two clubs and one player called Hachem's 2,200 continuation bet. On the turn the hit and Hachem threw out 3,300. Once again he got called, and the river was the . Hachem again bet 3,300 and his opponent decided to raise to 8,800. Hachem made the call and was up against .
The final hand he lost was very unlucky. Hachem got his final 6,700 chips into the pot with and one of the players called him with . The board ran out , "And the river blanked", Hachem cried as he slowly headed to the exit.