Yevgeniy Timoshenko raised 15,000 preflop and Jamie Pickering called. the flop was . Timoshenko bet 20,000 and Pickering moved all in. Timoshenko called.
Timoshenko:
Pickering:
Timoshenko was ahead with a pair of Queens, but Pickering picked up a flush draw. The turn was the and the river was the . Timoshenko won the pot and Pickering busted out in 20th place.
Dale Townsend open-raised from UTG, Vince Wan moved all in from the small blind and Townsend made the call.
Wan
Townsend
The flop was , Wan hitting a set of sixes. The turn was the , the river was the , and Wan doubled through Townsend, increasing his stack to just over 100,000.
Mark Saber raised to 22,000, Michael "Timex" McDonald moved all in and Saber made the call.
Saber
McDonald
The flop was , giving the lead to McDonald with a pair of kings. The turn was the , the river was the and McDonald took it down with trips. Saber's stack was decimated on the hand, leaving him with only 72,000 while McDonald seized the chiplead with over 300,000.
"Run good, monkey!" teased McDonald's friend Jimmy "Gobboboy" Fricke who watched the hand play out from an adjacent table.