A player opened to 10,000, and after one flatter, Dag Palovic made it 40,000. The initial raiser announced all in for 187,600, and after the flatter snap-folded, Palovic announced a call without much thought. But he hated to see that his had run squarely into . The board came , and Palovic paid him off. He was left with just 70,000 in his favorite five-high stacks.
2010 World Series of Poker
David Benyamine is up 680,000 after eliminating a short stack, all the chips going in on the turn of a board with the Frenchman's evading a paired board against .
Jeff Fenech, the Australian boxing champ, just took a nasty body blow. He had an opponent covered and all in on the turn with the board showing . Fenech had for the straight plus a flush draw, while his opponent held .
The river brought the , though, giving Fenech's opponent a boat and sending him down to just 17,000 chips.
Fenech did double up on the following hand, however, and thus is still swinging with about 35,000.
We found Adam Junglen moving all in on an flop. It took his opponent a long time to make the call, but make it he did, and Junglen made an "uh-oh" sort of face as they turned the cards over.
Junglen: for nothing more than overcards
Eventual Caller: for an overpair
There was a glimmer of flushy hope for Junglen on the turn but he was already standing to leave, and the blank on the river sealed the deal.
We're not sure how the chips got into the middle, but it was on a flop of with Johnny Lodden and his opponent going to war. Lodden tabled for a flush draw with a few overcards but his short-stacked opponent was in front with just for ace-queen high.
The on the turn seemed like a fair card, as now both players were chopping. Lodden still had his flush outs to win the pot, but his opponent spiked one of his outs when the fell on the river to make two pair, queens and sixes. Lodden slips to 572,000.
Erica Schoenberg has hit the rail. She was all in preflop for her last 40,000 or so with the . Her opponent had her dominated with the .
The flop was good to Schoenberg with the coming down. She picked up a pair of sixes and the lead. The turn was the giving her opponent a heart draw and the river completed that draw with the .
Schoenberg was up and out of her seat the instant the river card hit the felt.
Michael Chow already has one bracelet at the 2010 WSOP but he's going to need to change his luck in this Main Event if he hopes to make it two. Chow was one of two middle-position players to call a pre-flop raise to 11,000 made by a player under the gun. When that player checked a , Chow tried a bet of 16,500. The player behind him raised to 42,000 and took down the pot without further resistance.
Chow is down to about 150,000.
With nearly 70,000 chips in the middle on a flop of , Robert Mizrachi got it all in holding top set with the against the for his opponent.
The turn was the and the river the , sending the all-in player to the rail and moving Mizrachi up to 635,000 in chips.
Jason Somerville raised to 8,000 preflop and called the hijack's three-bet to 22,500. Both players checked their way through to the river and we were looking at a board that read . Somerville check-called a bet of 24,000 but mucked when his opponent showed .
After the hand was over, Somerville told our trusty field reporter that "I guess I should be happy that I did't ship pre(flop)." Even with the loss, Somerville is still comfortable with 340,000 chips.
There was already about 30,000 chips in the middle on the flop of . Steven Burkholder was up first and checked. His opponent bet 11,000 before Burkholder raised to 25,000. His opponent made the call.
The turn card brought the and Burkholder bet 25,000. His opponent called again.
The river brought the and Burkholder fired a big bet of 100,000. His opponent tank-called for his last 80,000 chips with the . Top two pair wasn't good though as Burkholder tabled the for a wheel.
Burkholder's now up to nearly 550,000 in chips.