After Jeff Jansen raised to 450 from the hijack seat, Jason Somerville called from the button. Henry Vanderpol called out of the big blind, and the dealer spread the flop. Vanderpol and Jansen checked, then Somerville bet 1,025. Vanderpol called, and Jansen folded.
The turn was the , and both Vanderpol and Somerville checked to see the land on the river. Both checked again.
Somerville tabled the in an optimistic manner, but it was no good against the that Vanderpol held, and he won the pot. That moved Vanderpol to about 12,500 and knocked Somerville down to 14,300.
A couple of hands later, Vanderpol opened from middle position with a raise. After the player in the cutoff seat reraised to 900, play folded back to Vanderpol and he moved all in. His opponent quickly folded, and Vanderpol won the pot to chip up some more.
A table in the room just exploded with excitement and we rushed over to see a ton of chips in the middle with the full board out there.
The board showed and Jeremy Conant had the biggest smile on his face as he held for quads.
Conant's opponent held and respectively, and top set found itself drawing dead on the turn. Conant's now sitting pretty on a pile of chips with still a few levels left to register.
Brandon King just landed quads on the river to win a big pot and move to 36,000 in chips, but he had to do so in order to come from behind in a set-over-set confrontation.
King limped in from the under-the-gun position, a woman in middle position raised to 600, the player in the big blind called, and then King called.
The flop came down , and action checked to the woman in middle position. She bet 400, the player in the big blind called, and then King raised to 1,100. The woman reraised to 2,200, the player in the big blind folded, and then King went all in. The woman called to put herself at risk, but she by far the best of it with the for top set. King had middle set with the and would need to improve to win the hand.
The turn was the , but then the spiked on the river to give King the case six in the deck and his only out to win the hand. He had his opponent covered and moved to 36,000 in chips.