Benjamin Lazer has won a handful of pots over the past few minutes, including one where he three-bet from the blinds, and Randy Ohel called. Both players drew three and checked, and then drew three again. Lazer led out, and Ohel called. Lazer patted, Ohel drew one, and both players checked.
Lazer fanned , and Ohel mucked.
On another hand, Lazer raised with the button, Ohel three-bet, and Lazer called. Both players drew two, and Ohel check-called a bet. On the second draw, Ohel dished two, Lazer one, and again, Ohel check-called a bet.
On the final draw, Ohel drew one, and Lazer stood pat. Ohel check-called one more bet, and Lazer fanned . Ohel mucked.
We missed the details on a third pot, but four bets went in before the final draw, and both players stood pad. Ohel called a bet from Lazer, and again mucked when Lazer showed .
Benjamin Lazer continued his good heads-up form and took over the chip lead, but only for one hand.
He raise-called a three-bet, then drew two, one, and one. Randy Ohel drew one, one and stood pat, and bet on the first two rounds before he check-called the last round. Lazer opened and Ohel mucked.
The next hand was a two bet pot and Ohel had the lead all the way. He opened , took the pot, and leveled up the encounter as Lazer mucked.
Randy Ohel had the, button and raised. Benjamin Lazer defended his big blind, and drew three cards. Ohel drew one, and bet when Lazer checked. On the second draw, laser dished two cards, and Ohel stood pat. Both players patted on the third draw, and Ohel fanned an eighty-seven, and won.
The next hand we caught up with on the first draw, where Lazer drew two and Ohel three. Lazer bet dark, Ohel raised, and Lazer called. On the second draw, Lazer dished two, Ohel one, and Lazer check-called a bet,
Both players drew one on the final draw, and checked. Lazer showed , and won the pot.
Benjamin Lazer won the first two showdown pots of this heads-up match to close the gap on Randy Ohel.
Ohel was the aggressor both times but that didn't work out to well for him.
They both showed eighty-sevens on the first showdown with Lazer having just the better of it. The next hand Ohel showed down a ten-eight, but lost out to a nighty-eight.
Odel did win an uncontested pot after that to stretch the lead back out a little.
Randy Ohel had the button, and raised. David Baker tanked for quite some time, then committed nearly half of his stack.
On the first draw, Baker discarded three, Ohel two. Baker bet, Ohel raised enough to put him all in, and Baker called.
On the second draw, Baker drew one, Ohel two. On the final draw, both players called for one card, and Baker fanned . Ohel tabled , and his final card was a . The crowd groaned.
"That's a pretty good card," Baker said.
Baker turned over a , giving him a pair of fours, and eliminating him from the tournament.
After a frantic period, the action went a bit flat for the last ten minutes. Then came a three-way hand that saw Baker crippled.
He raised the button and was called by both players in the blinds. All three drew two cards and both players called Baker's bet. Baker drew two and his opponents drew one. Baker bet 30,000 and Randy Ohel called while Benjamin Lazer moved out of the way.
Baker stood pat and Ohel drew one and then led out for 30,000. Baker didn't like it but called anyway, and then mucked when shown by Ohel.
Randy Ohel raised out of the small blind, Benjamin Lazer called, and both players drew two cards. Ohel led out, Lazer raised, and Ohel called. On the second draw, Ohel drew one, and check-called a bet from Lazer who patted. The same action occurred on the third draw, and Lazer fanned . Ohel mucked his hand.
On the second hand, Lazer raised on the button, and Ohel defended his big blind. Both players drew three cards, and Ohel check-called a bet. On the second draw, Ohel discarded two, Lazer one, and Ohel check-called another bet. On the final draw, Ohel drew one, Lazer patted, and both players checked. Lazer showed , and won the pot.
On the third hand, Ohel limped in from the small blind, and Lazer raised. Ohel called. Ohel drew three cards, Lazer two, and Ohel led out. Lazer raised, and Ohel called. Both players drew one on the second draw, and Ohel led out again. This time, Lazer just called. On the final draw, Ohel stood pat, Lazer drew one, and both players checked. Ohel fanned , and won the pot.
David Baker is around 900,000 chips off the lead after conceding defeat on the last betting round versus Randy Ohel.
He raised from the small blind and Ohel called from the big blind. Ohel drew one to Baker's three before the latter check-called a bet. Both drew two the second round and Baker check-called another bet. Ohel stood pat and Baker traded one for the final time.
Ohel fired one more time when the action was checked to him. Baker looked at his stack and looked back at his hand and decided to wait for a better spot to commit any more chips.