Once again we have Duvall-on-Donev action, and this time it's Donev who comes out on top.
The action is complicatedly as follows:
Third street: Donev bets, Duvall raises, Donev calls.
Fourth street: Donev check-raises and Duval raise-calls.
Fifth street: Donev bets, Duvall calls.
Sixth street: much like fifth street, Donev bets and Duvall calls.
Seventh street: once again, Donev bets, but this time Duvall sighs, and folds the up. Donev taps the table, and turns over his pretty pretty hand, to some ooh-ing and ahh-ing around the table.
The two Phils, Ivey and Hellmuth, just tangled in a big pot.
David Williams started by completing showing before Phil Ivey raised it up showing . Phil Hellmuth called with and Williams called too.
Williams ducked out the next street but Hellmuth called Ivey all the way through sixth street where he was showing . It was Hellmuth who led out on seventh though before Ivey raised showing . Hellmuth's response was to reraise and that made Ivey stop and think but he made the call anyway.
"So sick, I though I could get you to fold," announced Hellmuth and showed his hidden x.
Ivey tabled x and scooped another big pot as he stretches his lead even more.
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Grinding grinding grinding
Marc Goodwin has doubled up through John Juanda in a razz hand, all in on fifth street. He's still pretty desperate, though, on just 20,000.
A short-stacked Andy Bloch flopped a pair of sevens on a king-high board, but John Juanda had another king, and it held up all the way to put an end to Bloch's HORSE-y hopes.
It folded around to Spencer Lawrence on the button, who did the sensible thing and raised. No respect for him from small blind Raul Paez and big blind Daniel Negreanu, though, who both called without hesitation.
Both players checked the flop, and Lawrence bet once more. This time only Paez came along for the ride, Negreanu deciding it wasn't worth any more of his time.
They both checked the turn, and Paez then bet out on the river. After a pause where Lawrence's hand hovered around with the calling chips, uncertain of what to do, he called, and it was a chop.
Phil Hellmuth stood out of his seat and called over to Howard Lederer at the next table. "Howard, there's something wrong with the deck over here. Phil's just hit a miracle queen and then made a straight flush on five in the next hand."
The Phil he was talking about was Mr. Ivey who now sits on over 100,000. Most of his extra chips were gained in the first of the two hands Hellmuth was referring to.
His opponent, who had to fold at the end after being raised one too many times for his liking by Ivey, was Sherkhan Farnood. Farnood was showing . Ivey had the decency to show his hidded cards giving him a holding of .
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Woe for Ivo
With around 20,000 in the pot by the river of the board, Ivo Donev checked to Jeff Duvall. Duvall bet, and after a moment's consideration, a slightly crushed expression on his face, Donev gave it up.
Jason Gray is down to just 14,000 chips right now after he lost a pot to Howard Lederer. Lederer raised it up from early position and Gray was the only caller from the button before the flop came .
Lederer check-called a bet from Gray before the turn came . Lederer led out this time and Gray made the call before the river came . Once again Lederer led at the pot and Gray had to concede he was beaten and let his hand go.
That's the problem with limit Omaha when you're short-stacked. You're nearly always getting a good price to chase your draws, but it can be really detrimental to your long term hopes if you don't hit.
A pleasant start to the post-dinner session for Max Pescatori as he bet all the way and got himself called all the way down by Raul Paez, only to scoop the whole lot away from him.
Pescatori: with
Paez: with at least one ace flashed at the end, and possibly two.
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up. Donev taps the table, and turns over his pretty pretty hand, to some ooh-ing and ahh-ing around the table.
with 
with 
before Phil Ivey raised it up showing 
. Phil Hellmuth called with 
and Williams called too.
. It was Hellmuth who led out on seventh though before Ivey raised showing 
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river. After a pause where Lawrence's hand hovered around with the calling chips, uncertain of what to do, he called, and it was a chop.
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board, Ivo Donev checked to Jeff Duvall. Duvall bet, and after a moment's consideration, a slightly crushed expression on his face, Donev gave it up.
. Lederer led out this time and Gray made the call before the river came 
with at least one ace flashed at the end, and possibly two.