Facing a raise to 600, Mike Sowers moved all in for his last 2,525, and found a caller from the original raiser.
Sowers:
Opponent:
The board ran out to see Sowers double through to 5,500 in chips.
Facing a raise to 600, Mike Sowers moved all in for his last 2,525, and found a caller from the original raiser.
Sowers:
Opponent:
The board ran out to see Sowers double through to 5,500 in chips.
Leo Margets opened to 550 from under the gun only to have an opponent next to act three-bet to 1,425.
Margets made the call before check-calling 1,725 on the flop as the landed on the turn and both players checked it through.
The river landed the and after Margets checked, she was confronted with a 6,500-chip bet from her opponent.
After a few moments of deliberation, Margets made the call, only to muck at the sight of her opponent's while slipping to 37,000 in chips.
On a flop of , Brian Rast bet 4,600 only to have Joao Nunes raise to 12,100. Rast responded by moving all in and Nunes quickly made the call.
Rast:
Nunes:
Nunes needed to catch an ace or four but didn't do so when the came on the turn and on the river. Rast doubled back to the starting stack of 30,000 while Nunes dropped to 12,000.
Daniel Negreanu fired a flop of and was check-called by one player. The turn didn't slow Negreanu down. He put another 1,800 out there and was check-called a second time. The river was the and brought a third bet from Negreanu of 2,400. This time, however, Negreanu's opponent pondered and then cut out a check-raise to 5,800.
Negreanu is normally a chatty player at the table, but during this hand he remained mostly silent. After thirty to forty seconds, he re-raised to 11,200.
"How much more do you have?" Negreanu's opponent asked. The answer was about 17,000. It seemed like the player wanted to pull the trigger on a shove but couldn't do it. He eventually folded.
"You had the right idea," said Negreanu. "I was just goofing around. I didn't have anything." He flipped open a total airball, !
"Neither did I," responded Negreanu's opponent.
"Crazy internet stuff," Negreanu continued.
A minute went by. Negreanu's opponent was still thinkng about the hand.
"Damn, I should have put it all in," he said.
"You were going to. I was like, 'Oh no, I screwed up again.'"
As it turned out, Negreanu made a great read and exerted the right amount of pressure to induce the fold he needed. He's up to 40,000 in chips.
We walked up to Table Portal/Dabul just in time to see the turn card come out on a board of . Action was on Andriy Pavly in middle position, and he led out with a bet of 2,200 in to a pot of abot 4,000. Portal called, and the paired the board on fifth street. Portal faced one last bet of 5,200, and she eventually decided to call.
Pavly tabled , and his full house was going to take the pot. Portal shook her head and mucked, and she's slipped to 23,300.
Olivier Busquet was down to his last 2,000 chips after a frustrating start to the day. A player raised to 600 in front of him, and "LivB" moved all in. The button called, as did the original raiser, giving Busquet a chance to triple up. The two live players checked down a board. Busquet rolled over for a rivered flush. His opponents mucked, and Busquet tripled to 6,450.
Pieter de Korver was under the gun and raised to 575. A player in middle position raised to 1,500 and de Korver made the call. The flop came and de Korver checked. The middle position player bet 2,000 and de Korver called.
Both players checked the on the turn and then de Korver bet 4,075 when the hit the river. The middle position player called and de Korver showed for three fours. It was good enough to win the pot and de Korver is now up to 55,500.
Clark Hamagami found himself all in on a board against two players.
Hamagami:
Opponent:
Opponent:
The turn of the changed little, but it was the on the river that would see Hamagami make quads to soar to 54,000 in chips.
On a flop of Jason Wheeler fired out 1,450 only to be check-raised to 3,450.
Wheeler made the call to see the land on the turn and his opponent fire out 4,000 with Wheeler calling once again as the river landed the .
Wheeler was faced wth another strong bet; this time amounting to 7,000, and quickly called it off tabling his to best his opponent's to move to 59,000 in chips.
On a board reading with around 22,000 in the pot, Kai Paulsen fired out a bet of 11,000.
His opponent went deep into the tank for over four minutes before making the call.
Paulsen tabled his for quads, and collected the pot to move to 61,000 in chips.