Xuan Liu brought it in and cleared the field all the way around to Todd Brunson, who completed. Liu made the call and then bet out after Brunson checked the turn. The latter made the call before check-raising all in for just 3,000 more over Liu's fifth-street bet.
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Liu was ahead with her pocket pair of nines, and Brunson was looking for some help to keep his tournament hopes alive. Sixth street gave him a low draw, but seventh neither completed it nor gave him a high. Brunson took home $22,142 for his seventh-place finish.
The lady was doing the betting when we joined the action on fifth street. Call-call. On sixth, Mizrachi bet his pair, and that was called in both places, too. Mizrachi bet dark before seventh street. Rossi called all in for her last 20,000, and Zeidman called too. Neither of them would get any of this pot.
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While most of our readers are familiar with the big-bet games in poker like No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, today's Event 4: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better will be played in a limit format and one some people may not be acquainted with.
Seven Card Stud is the most popular version of stud poker and generally played anywhere between two and eight players at a time. Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better is a split-pot variant of that game and the one that's featured in today's 5:00 PM event, an event won by Chris Viox in 2011, and an event won by Phil Ivey back in 2002.
If a player stays in until the end of a hand, he or she will receive a total of seven cards. To start, each player is dealt two cards face down followed by a third card face up. Each player would then receive three more cards face up followed by the seventh and final card face down. There is a betting round after each street and often an ante before anyone receives any cards.
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After Bonnie Rossi brought it in with the , Cory Zeidman called and Yarron Bendor completed. Rossi got out of the way, Zeidman called, and it was off to the turn. Zeidman ended up check-calling a bet before taking the lead on fifth and firing every street.
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Bendor ended up folding to Zeidman's bet on seventh street, but not before showing his opponent that he had cracked rolled-up fives.
Xuan Liu completed with the showing, and Brandon Shack-Harris raised with the . Bonnie Rossi called with her , Cory Zeidman called with the , and Liu called the extra bet to see fourth street.
Fourth street checked around, and Zeidman fired the first bet on fifth. Liu was the only caller, and they were heads-up to sixth street. Liu checked her betting lead, and she tank-folded to a big bet from Zeidman.
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