We only walked up to the table on the river action, but we saw that John Monnette and his opponent were heads up on a board that read . Both players had a slew of bets in front of them, and Monnette had just fired out a bet on the river when we got there. His opponent tanked for about 20 seconds before calling, and Monnette announced "quads" and tabled . His opponent mucked, and after taking that one, Monnette is up to 113,000.
We don't know the action, but we do know that an extremely short-stacked Matthew Kursar just doubled through "Detroit" Al Green. The former held the on an board while the latter had the .
It was a small hit for Green, who prefers to go by Detroit Al. "If you ever come to Detroit, I'll have a game," the jovial elder statesman explain.
Todd Brunson raised it up in early position, and Men "the Master" Nguyen, was the lone caller. The flop brought all diamonds, , and Brunson bet. Nguyen shot back with a raise, and Brunson called. The turn brought the , and this time, Brunson checked. Nguyen fired, and Brunson came back with a check raise. Nguyen called, and he also called when Brunson bet out on the river.
Brunson tabled for the nut high and second nut low, and Nguyen simply said "you're good", rechecked his hole cards a couple of times, then kicked his hand in. Brunson, who was down to as low about 30,000 earlier today, is back up to nearly 75,000.
"Payout," is something we've been hearing quite often as of late. Most recently it happened over at Table 443. By the time we made out way over, the dealer had already swiped Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri's losing hand. What we do know is that he was eliminated by Jon Ford, who held the on a board.
Meanwhile, over at Table 439, Scott Fischman met his demise. Unfortunately the dealer had already swiped all the cards by the time we made our way over.