After making a healthy raise before the flop, Benjamin Palmer heard an opponent in late position announce "Pot!" and was faced with a decision for his tournament life. He made that decision quickly and called with his . The aggresor in the hand told him "I have aces" and flipped up his . Palmer was not fazed and responded "I'm still in pretty good shape" as both players waited for the dealer to decide their fates.
Flop:
The flop was safe for the player holding aces and for once it looked like pocket rockets would live up to their name in an Omaha hand. The turn came and nothing had changed: Palmer would need to spike a king for a set or a five to complete a gutshot wheel straight draw.
River:
As is usually the case in the complex game of Omaha, the draw had gotten their and Palmer doubled his stack to just under 140,000.
The players have stood up and dispersed as we have reached our sixty-minute dinner break. The 100 denomination chips are being colored up and when play resumes the sprint to the final table will heat up.
During the break we heard a few of the dealers engaged in a conversation that caught our attention. Apparently Emil Patel, the player who made a miraculous royal flush on the river to overcome Steve Wolfe's full house, has been making a habit of outdrawing his opponent's boats. According to the dealer who dealt both hands, Patel also scored a straight flush earlier in this Day 2 to crush another player's full house.
If Patel can weave his way through the remainder of this field and capture a gold bracelet, he may want to consider tipping this one-out delivering dealer a little extra.
Nick Binger has had a pretty healthy stack through out the day and we were shocked to find him sitting with 2,500 when we all went for dinner break. He came over to us asking if we happened to catch why he was so low, we told him no, and he was nice enough to give us the story.
Apparently Binger raised from the cut off and made it 7,000 and when the action got back to Emil Patel in the Big Blind he made it 15,200, Binger called and both players were awarded a flop.
On a flop of Patel checked, and Binger fired out 12,300, Patel immediately bet pot and after a raise from Binger Patel was all in. Binger only had 2500 more than Patel, so both players were essentially at risk. Cards were flipped and Patel held for a naked flush draw, Binger as he says it held for a set of tens and a straight flush draw.
The turn was a blank (Binger didn't inform us what the turn was), but the river was a , giving Patel the flush and the pot.
With the board reading , T.K. Miles bet 31,000 from the small blind. The pot already contained over 50,000 chips and his opponent in middle position had a very difficult decision on his hands.
After tanking for two minutes or so, his opponent made the call and Miles showed down the for trip fours. His opponent threw his cards into the muck and Miles continued his upward trend in one of the first hands after returning from dinner break.
Short stacked Binger did not even have enough chips to pay for a big blind when he moved all in after a player in late position raised. Binger realizing he had no other move, put out his three chips and found some protection as Nathan Gamble on his left reraised. The protection was quickly wiped away as Thoennes also made the call. The initial raiser folded and it was time for a flop.
all hit the flop and before we knew it the other two players were betting back and forth until Mark Thoennes was all in against his opponent in a side pot. Cards were then flipped.
Binger:
Thoennes:
Gamble:
The turn was the a horror cards for both Binger and the other player in the hand, but the river was the giving Binger a straight. Thoennes essentially doubled up as well with a set of jacks
Continuing his chip and a chair efforts, Nick Binger went all in for his last 9,000 or so chips and was called in two spots. The flop read and Binger's opponents checked it down trying to combine forces and eliminate the dangerous pro.
Nick's brother Michael, also competing in this Day 2, came over to sweat the all-in moment and Nick held his cards up for Michael to see what he was working with. The turn and river came and respectively, and both opponents checked it down the whole way.
Binger waited to reveal his holding and both opponent's announced "Ace-high." Binger finally showed his for trip queens and after starting our post-break play with only 2,500 chips, which was good for only a single big blind, Binger has multiplied his stack by ten to sit with over 25,000 at the moment.
Michael Kamran was in the small blind and raised to 9,000 before the flop, only to see the button reraise to 30,000. Kamran decided it was now or never and pushed his last chips into the middle and the button snap-called, tabling his . Kamran held the , and at the moment his queens were in the lead over his opponent's jacks.
The flop fell and Kamran made trip tens to solidify his position in the hand. The button held a gutshot straight with his jack-nine and would need to spike an eight to complete it. A jack would also be good for trips, but Kamran had that blocked with the jack in his hand.
The turn and river came and respectively and Kamran's trip tens held for the double-up. He now sits with just under 90,000 chips as Day 2 play continues.
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. The aggresor in the hand told him "I have aces" and flipped up his 
. Palmer was not fazed and responded "I'm still in pretty good shape" as both players waited for the dealer to decide their fates.
and nothing had changed: Palmer would need to spike a king for a set or a five to complete a gutshot wheel straight draw.
Patel checked, and Binger fired out 12,300, Patel immediately bet pot and after a raise from Binger Patel was all in. Binger only had 2500 more than Patel, so both players were essentially at risk. Cards were flipped and Patel held 
for a naked flush draw, Binger as he says it held 
for a set of tens and a straight flush draw.
, giving Patel the flush and the pot.
, T.K. Miles bet 31,000 from the small blind. The pot already contained over 50,000 chips and his opponent in middle position had a very difficult decision on his hands.
for trip fours. His opponent threw his cards into the muck and Miles continued his upward trend in one of the first hands after returning from dinner break.
a horror cards for both Binger and the other player in the hand, but the river was the 
and Binger's opponents checked it down trying to combine forces and eliminate the dangerous pro.
and 
. Kamran held the 
, and at the moment his queens were in the lead over his opponent's jacks.
and Kamran made trip tens to solidify his position in the hand. The button held a gutshot straight with his jack-nine and would need to spike an eight to complete it. A jack would also be good for trips, but Kamran had that blocked with the jack in his hand.