Payne Wins One, Loses One

Hand #1: Korey Payne completed his small blind upon action folding to him and Martin Zamani checked his option in the big blind. Action checked through the flop and the turn came . Payne fired out 175,000 and Zamani raised it to 350,000. Payne called.

The river was and Payne led out for 250,000. Zamani announced that he actually had something good, but that he was going to pay off Payne nonetheless. He reached across the table and set his call down right next to Payne.

Payne showed ad it confirmed Zamani's suspicions about Payne having the better hand. Zamani sent his cards to the muck and Payne took in the pot.

Hand #2: On the following hand, Payne raised on the button and received a call from Randy Froelich in the big blind. The flop came and Froelich check-called a continuation-bet of 160,000 from Payne.

Froelich led out on the turn for 300,000 and Payne called, bringing the river .

"I'm all in," said Froelich. His stack was counted to be 1.135 million and it was more than Payne wished to commit, resulting in him sending his cards to the muck to earn Froelich the pot.