A player under the gun raised to 850, and Juan Maceiras called from middle position. The flop came . The preflop raiser bet 1,600, Maceiras raised to 3,500, and the UTG player called.
The turn was the . This time the UTG player bet 2,200, and Maceiras promptly raised to 7,000. His opponent let it go.
Maceiras showed as he dragged the pot. His up-and-down day continues. He presently sits with 30,000.
After a raise to 1,100 from middle position, Shirley Williams called from the cutoff seat.
The flop came and the raiser bet 1,200. Williams made the call. The on the turn had both players checking. When the river came another , the middle position player check-called Williams' bet of 1,500.
Williams showed , the same hand that ended her son's Main Event run four years ago, and her opponent mucked. She is now up to just over 28,000 chips.
We caught up with this one on the river, with 18,000 already in the pot and the board reading . The small blind checked, Vivek Rajkumar bet 6,000 and the small blind called.
The small blind showed .
"I had so many outs" lamented Rajkumar as he mucked his hand.
A few hands later, Rajkumar lost a 25,000 race when his couldn't improve against his opponent's . He's now down to 9,300.
Isabelle Mercier, no doubt refreshed after that ninety-minute massage in the last level, watched from the big blind as the table folded around. The player in the small blind then raised to 800.
"You don't have to raise my big blind every time it folds around, right?" she said as she made the call.
The flop came . The small blind checked, Mercier bet 1,200, and he called. The turn was the . He checked again, she bet 2,200, and this time he let it go.
All in preflop, Edward Moncada has and his opponent [7s}. The board is and Moncada is out. Moncada is best known for winning a 2005 pot-limit hold'em bracelet.
The trend today had been quite, tranquil players with rarely much action or excitement taking break. However, since the last break concluded, play here in the Amazon room has certainly livened up. We're hearing "Seat open!" and "Player all-in!" on almost a regular basis, with more players socially speaking with one another at the table.
All around, the atmosphere is more on par with what we've grown accustomed to here in the Amazon room, though we're not sure what, exactly, caused the change.
On a river of , Farzad Rouhani bets 5,000 in the small blind and his opponent calls out of the big blind. Rouhani shows and the big blind mucks. Rouhani is climbing and has 30,000 in chips.
John Juanda and the big blind checked a flop of . The turn came the and the big blind bet 1,500. Juanda called. The river was the and the big blind fired out another 3,400. Juanda called again.
The big blind showed but Juanda hit his flush on the river with and is now up to 18,500.
Leo Wolper raised to 800 from early position before calling an all-in push of his opponent who was sitting in the big blind. Wolper's was dominating his opponent's .
The board came queen high helping Wolper back to near his starting stack at 19,000. His opponent on the other hand heads out the exit door.