A very short-stacked Cathy Dever open-shoved for 65,000 from the hijack seat, and David Grandieri called in the big blind, committing about half of his stack.
Dever:
Grandieri:
Grandieri pulled out in front on a flop of , but the on the turn gave Dever the best hand once again. The river was paint, but the changed nothing, and Dever doubled.
"I folded too," Blake Bohn said after the hand.
Dever doubled to 143,000 chips, while Grandieri 85,000.
Loni Harwood opened to 16,000 from the hijack and Brock Parker decided on a three-bet to 43,000 in defense of his small blind.
Harwood tanked for no more than two minutes, before moving all in with a big four-bet to cover Parker, who held 275,000 behind at the time.
Parker also thought things over but he called relatively quickly, rolling over to find himself dominating Harwood's . The flop came down to miss everybody, but the turn was the and Harwood found a four-flush, but when the completed the board on the river her top pair hand was outkicked by a king.
The action folded to Ryan D'Angelo, who completed from the small blind. Leonardo Palermo checked, and the flop fell . D'Angelo led out for 12,000, Palermo called, and the turn was the .
D'Angelo check-called a bet of 22,000, and the duo both checked on the river ().
D'Angelo flashed the prettiest card in the deck - the - but Palermo had him beat with for top pair.
After Jason Koon opened to 18,000 from the cutoff, and Glenn Lafaye flatted from the button, Jeff Gross made his stand with a three-bet shove to 206,000 out of the small blind.
Koon deliberated for a short while to suggest that his late position open was at least made with a decent hand, but the instant his hand went into the muck Lafaye snap-called the bet to put Gross at risk.
Lafaye:
Gross:
Gross had a few outs in the deck with big slick, but rather than racing for an above average stack, he was in bad shape against Lafaye's cowboys.
The board rolled out by the turn to provide the requisite sweat, as Gross could catch a ten on the turn to make Broadway, but the on the river was nothing but a bright red brick.
Down to his last 74,000 in chips, Keven Stammen was happy to get it all in with and found one taker in George Kelly who had .
The flop came , a flop that helped Kelly and one that Stammen certainly didn't like.
The turn was the and the river was the and Stammen's hand held up to give him the double up. Kelly in the meantime moved down to just 80,000 in chips after the hand.
Curt Kohlberg is having his way early on with Jeff Madsen. With over 150,000 in the pot on the river, Kohlberg made a 100,000 chip bet. The board was .
Madsen thought for a while before ultimately tossing out a single 5,000 chip to indicate a call. Kohlberg turned over for the nut flush and Madsen mucked.
We just caught two hands which demonstrate the power of the three-bet shove, with Blake Bohn and George Kelly each making the move and getting through to chip up.
First, Athanasios Polychronopoulos opened for 20,000 from the cutoff, and Blake Bohn jammed over the top for his last 102,000.
Polychronopoulos took his time to think things through, cutting out the requisite calling chips to assess the potential damage should showdown a second-best hand. After two minutes or so, Polychronopoulos decided discretion was the better part of valor, and he flashed the first before showing its inferior companion in the .
"Ahh..." said Bohn when he saw the laydown. "I wanted a call." Bohn then held his up for Polychronopoulos to see, before dragging in the pot.
A moment later we caught George Kelly in the same spot, with a three-bet shove for 130,000 or so sitting in front of his cards. Keven Stammen was the one tanking this time, after he opened for 16,000 in middle position. Stammen laid down to the pressure play too, telling the table "got no heart" with a smile as he did so.
Jesse Sylvia was all in and at risk with with his opponent, Tony Gregg, holding .
The flop came keeping Gregg in the lead.
The turn was the and Sylvia was down to one card to keep his hopes alive. He would need a heart or a Queen, otherwise his day was done.
The river brought one of those needed cards... the ... as Sylvia hits the flush to score the needed double up to 350,000 in chips. Gregg's lost nearly half his stack since coming back from break but is still sitting with a good amount of chips at 320,000.
Nick Schulman raised to 18,000 from under the gun, Garrett Greer moved all in for 82,000 on his direct left, and the action folded back to Schulman, who called.
Schulman:
Greer:
It was a classic race situation, and Schulman took the lead when the dealer fanned a flop of . Neither the turn () nor the river () produced nines, and Greer was eliminated.
Schulman, a two-time WSOP bracelet winner, chipped up to 565,000.