Alex "Assassinato" Fitzgerald joins Nate and Andrew on the Thinking Poker Podcast to talk about growing up in Alaska, struggling with drugs, coming up in poker, and making and disseminating training material.
Hunter Cichy can breathe more easily now that he has 111,000 chips in front of him, courtesy of a very fortunate treble up.
Jason Vanstrom raised, Nipun Java flatted and Cichy squeezed all in for 36,000. Vanstrom then reshoved and Java called, creating a huge pot.
Vanstrom:
Java:
Cichy:
"Just take them now!" said Cichy about his lowly pocket fives, but it's a good thing they weren't because the board ran , gifting Cichy an unlikely straight. Vanstrom busted in the hand and Java lost a decent chunk of his stack.
Jared Jaffee raised to 5,100 from the cutoff and the action passed to Mark Herm in the small blind. Herm three-bet to 15,200 and Jaffee let his hand go.
We have been informed that this is Herm's first event of the 2014 World Series of Poker and the online legend is looking good for a very deep run. Online, Herm is better-known as Dipthrong online where he has banked over $4.4 million in cashes. Here he is guaranteed another $5,316 at least.
We've also bumped into Germany's Felix Trau who has secured his first 2014 WSOP cash and has around 230,000 chips at his disposal.
Dan Kelly raised to 6,000 and was three-bet by David Jacobson on the button. Kelly called and then checked on the flop. Jacobson checked behind.
Kelly checked again when the made an appearance on the turn, Jacobson bet and Kelly called. The river was the and Kelly checked once more, but when Jacobson bet 21,500, Kelly instantly folded.