With the flop reading , Barry Shulman and Jason Alexander checked to their opponent in seat 2 who bet out 1,600. Shulman quickly got out of the way while Alexander made the call.
The turn brought the , pairing the board. Once again Alexander checked and his opponent chose to fire out 3,225 this time. Alexander threw out a check-raise, making it 7,100 to go. His opponent made the call.
The struck the river and both players checked like lightning. Alexander flipped over the for a rivered pair of kings. His opponent shook his head while laughing and mucked his cards while Alexander scooped the pot, bringing him to 71,000.
After a flop of , Jeff Williams bet out 3,200 and the player on the button called. The turn brought the and both players checked to see the come on the river. They both opted to check again and then Williams simply tossed his cards into the muck. The dealer started to push the pot to the other player before John Cernuto interjected saying that the player had to reveal his cards to win the pot. Indeed, Cernuto was correct in that if a hand goes to showdown the winning player has to show their hand to win the pot, even if the other player mucks.
The button did reveal his for a pair of sevens as he scooped up the pot.
Three players saw a flop that was checked around. On the turn, Dan Fleyshman led for 1,075 from the small blind and the big blind called behind him. The middle position player left in the hand folded as the came on the river. Fleyshman checked this time and the big blind bet 2,150. After some though, Fleyshman check-raised to 8,000 straight. The big blind asked Fleyshman how much he had before he folded as Fleyshman moved across the starting stack once again.
In case you're wondering about how Snow White -- a.k.a. Richard Wyrick -- is doing, he's currently sitting with about 22,000 chips.
Word is that Wyrick, who finished 27th in the 2006 WSOP Main Event for a nearly half-million dollar score -- felt as though things weren't going too well during the pre-dinner levels and thought a change of outfit might lead to better fortune.
A while ago Wyrick was given an apple, although if we're remembering the story correctly he may not want to take a bite.
Brett Richey had been nursing a short stack for much of the day, and as we walked back over to his section, we noticed that his seat was empty. We saw on his twitter that his pocket queens were defeated by two opponent's flush draws when the draw made it on the river, eliminating him from the event and ending his 2011 WSOP
We caught up with the action heads up on a flop where James Dempsey in early position check-called a bet of 2,750 fairly quickly from a player in middle position. On the turn, Dempsey checked again and his opponent fired 9,500. Dempsey proceeded to go into the tank and just stared at the board for a good five minutes as he shuffled some chips. Eventually, he softly pushed his cards towards the muck and dropped to below the starting stack.