Two hands in a row, the river was especially kind to Vanessa Selbst. We don't know quite what the action was that got Selbst to the first river, but on a board of she bet 16,000 into a pot of roughly the same amount. Her lone opponent tanked for about a minute before calling with . Selbst's had been badly behind on the turn but improved to the best hand with a three-outer on the river.
Shortly thereafter Selbst's opponent from that hand moved all in for 9,300 pre-flop. Selbst made what she said was a "pretty tough call" with and was up against pocket treys, . The first four community cards were , prompting Selbst to ask for a seven. The river did indeed come to overcoat the treys of Selbst's opponent and improve Selbst to the best hand again.
Mark Teltscher has taken a small hit, calling a short stack's all in with . The board rolled out a ten-free and the shortie doubled up to around 20,000. Teltscher sighed and dipped to 54,000 or so.
A player in middle position raised it up preflop, only for Phil Tom to three-bet all in for 8,825. The initial aggressor made the call with , but Tom was sitting on the American Airlines, , which subsequently stayed in flight on a board.
Mori Eskandani, best known as the producer of a number of poker television shows including "Poker After Dark" is in the Day 2B field today and just knocked out one of his opponents. Eskandani called the gent's pre-flop all-in holding and his pair held up against on the board.
Jon Van Fleet has been having an up and down day. He started off the day with 116,000 but slipped to 97,000 in the first level. He managed to build his stack back up to 127,000, but has just lost close to half of it - to the same person who he lost chips to earlier in the day.
Van Fleet was in the big blind and was one of just four players who saw a flop of . All four players checked and the turn brought the . At this time Van Fleet made a bet of 3,100 with one player calling and another raising to 12,000. Van Fleet then three-bet to 25,000. The person who called Van Fleet's last bet folded, but the re-raiser shoved all in for 36,600 with Van Fleet making the call.
Van Fleet:
Opponent:
Van Fleet needed the board to pair on the river if he were to win the hand, something that failed to occur when the dealer turned over the .
Hevad Khan checked to an opponent with 14,000 in the middle and the board reading . Khan's opponent bet 5,000 and Khan called. His opponent rolled over for the nut-flush and Khan mucked dropping his stack to just 13,000 chips.
Before the hand, Dag Palovic was groaning that Harrah's had got his nationality wrong and politely requesting that it be changed. "They got me down as Slovenian, but I'm Slovakian." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Yes, I'm definitely Slovakian." "Don't you like Slovenia," I inquired. "I've heard it's very nice there this time of year." "It's not that," he continued. "Slovenia is very good, but I'm from Slovakia."
Our surreal conversation was suddenly interrupted as Palovic reached for chips and put out a raise of 1,200 from under the gun. The big blind defended from, well, the big blind.
On the flop, the big blind check-raised 1,200 to 4,600 and Palovic snap-called leading to a turn. Palovic then called a bet of 7,500 before calling another bet, this time 11,000, on the river.
The big blind showed , which was good enough to take the pot and leave Palovic with 60,000.
I did suggest he try England, but he didn't embrace the idea.
With 4,200 chips in the pot pre-flop, a middle-position player and Kirk Morrison checked a flop. When the turn fell , Morrison's opponent led out with a bet of 5,000. Morrison called that bet and went to the river, which brought the . Both players checked. Morrison's opponent had been going for a check-raise; he turned over the nuts, .
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she bet 16,000 into a pot of roughly the same amount. Her lone opponent tanked for about a minute before calling with 
. Selbst's 
had been badly behind on the turn but improved to the best hand with a three-outer on the river.
and was up against pocket treys, 
. The first four community cards were 
, prompting Selbst to ask for a seven. The river did indeed come 
to overcoat the treys of Selbst's opponent and improve Selbst to the best hand again.
and the shortie doubled up to around 20,000. Teltscher sighed and dipped to 54,000 or so.
, but Tom was sitting on the American Airlines, 
board.
on the 
board.
. All four players checked and the turn brought the 
. At this time Van Fleet made a bet of 3,100 with one player calling and another raising to 12,000. Van Fleet then three-bet to 25,000. The person who called Van Fleet's last bet folded, but the re-raiser shoved all in for 36,600 with Van Fleet making the call.
. Khan's opponent bet 5,000 and Khan called. His opponent rolled over 
flop, the big blind check-raised 1,200 to 4,600 and Palovic snap-called leading to a 
, which was good enough to take the pot and leave Palovic with 60,000.