The flop read when a raising war between this year's WSOP Main Event 13th place finisher Marc Inizan and Guy Gorelik. Gorelik looked as though he'd invested around half his stack when Inizan shoved - by the size of the pot and the bets, we're guessing that the shove was a four or a five-bet. Gorelik's expression was one of slightly sour exasperation as he folded, leaving himself with 75,000. Inizan, who also picked up third place at EPT Berlin earlier this year, increased his stack to around 200,000.
From under the gun, Matt Waxman raised to 5,600. Action moved around the table to Nam Le in the cutoff seat. Le took his time and counted out his own stack of about 50,000 before moving all in. Action folded back over to Waxman and he called after a quick check back at his hand. He tabled the and was up against the at-risk Le's .
The flop came down and Le's queens were good so far. The turn added an extra sweat with the peeling off to give Waxman a flush draw. A six would mean a chopped pot.
The river completed the board with the and hit Waxman, giving him a pair of aces and the winning hand. Le wished everyone good luck and headed to the rail. Waxman is up to about 120,000 in chips.
We picked up the action a bit late, but we'll tell you what we know.
There was a board showing out on board when we walked up, and there was about 70,000 in the pot, heads up between Rob Akery and Nicolas Levi. It looks like there had been a bet and a call for 22,000 on the turn, but we can't say for sure who was doing the betting and the calling.
In any event, we picked up the action live as Akery checked the river, and Levi put out a bet of 55,000. His opponent spent a long while in the tank, but he eventually called with a pained look on his face. Levi didn't even flinch as he flipped up his airball , unable to beat anything.
Akery tabled to take the pot and take a big bite out of Levi's stack. He's up to 345,000 now, while Levi slips to 195,000.
A blind-on-blind confrontation went Daniel Negreanu's way as Greg Mueller made it 7,000 from the small blind and Negreanu called from the big.
Mueller bet out another 8,000 on the flop and a further 11,000 on the turn; Negreanu called both times before Mueller just checked the river. Negreanu checked behind and turned over for a pair of jacks. Mueller showed him an that had looked pretty preflop but hadn't really gone anywhere, and Negreanu edged up to 175,000. Mueller is now hovering right around the 100,000 mark.
Remy Biechel has been eliminated by Fabrizio Baldassari, who'd initially raised to 6,200 in the cutoff, only to find Biechel moving all in (for 100k exactly) over the top from the small blind. Baldasseri thought for a short while, then reached out and took back his bet. This could only mean one thing, even though he hadn't said anything, and took his sweet time bringing the 100k over the line - he was calling, and Biechel had to race for his tournament life with vs. Baldassari's .
A gutshot straight draw (which was blocked by Baldassari's hand) appeared on the flop, but Biechel didn't improve over the turn and river and he hit the rail.
Phil Ivey raised from under the gun to 6,000. Bojan Gledovic called from the next seat and then Andy Frankenberger called from the hijack seat. Barny Boatman reraised all in for 142,700 from the small blind and everyone folded.
Nam Le opened to 5,800 in the cutoff and got a slow and silent call from Yevgeniy Timoshenko on the button.
Le bet out 6,600 on the flop and after just a second Timoshenko called to see a turn. This time Le checked, and after a fairly lengthy pause, Timoshenko checked behind.
The river was the and Le now bet out 9,300, Timonshenko called with no hesitation, and turned over . Le turned over a king too - the but he slid it over to reveal his other card, the lacklustre , and Timoshenko took the pot.
Phil Ivey has been in pretty much every single pot today, and it apparently didn't take Dan Shak too long to figure that out.
A couple hands into his residency at his new table, Shak opened the pot to 6,500, and Ivey quickly tossed out four redbirds for a reraise to 20,000 straight. The table folded back to Shak, and he spent a minute gazing around before four-betting to what looked like 100,000 total. The look he got from Ivey -- we can only hope the cameraman filming it got a good shot. Ivey shot a long stare to his right as if Shak had just misbehaved badly. There was quick, good-natured exchange of a few comments, though we couldn't hear what was said.
Ivey looked away; it was as if he couldn't believe Shak had the moxie to four-bet him. After about a minute, though, Ivey let him have it, and Shak was visibly a bit shaky as he pulled the pot back into his stack.
Anthony Newman and Freddy Deeb got into a preflop collision (building between them a pot of around 40k) but it all went into slow-motion as the board cards elicited no further betting.
Check-check on the flop.
Check-check on the turn.
Check from Deeb on the river, but then a count-out and bet of 30k from Newman. Deeb rechecked his hand and threw in the call, tabling a rivered set of tens with and taking the pot.
If anybody knows Bryn Kenney, they should probably get on the phone and start calling him. He still hasn't shown up here for Day 3 and we're about halfway through the first level of play. His stack is down to about 110,000.
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when a raising war between this year's WSOP Main Event 13th place finisher Marc Inizan and Guy Gorelik. Gorelik looked as though he'd invested around half his stack when Inizan shoved - by the size of the pot and the bets, we're guessing that the shove was a four or a five-bet. Gorelik's expression was one of slightly sour exasperation as he folded, leaving himself with 75,000. Inizan, who also picked up third place at EPT Berlin earlier this year, increased his stack to around 200,000.
and was up against the at-risk Le's 
.
and Le's queens were good so far. The turn added an extra sweat with the 
peeling off to give Waxman a flush draw. A six would mean a chopped pot.
and hit Waxman, giving him a pair of aces and the winning hand. Le wished everyone good luck and headed to the rail. Waxman is up to about 120,000 in chips.
flop and a further 11,000 on the 
turn; Negreanu called both times before Mueller just checked the 
for a pair of jacks. Mueller showed him an 
that had looked pretty preflop but hadn't really gone anywhere, and Negreanu edged up to 175,000. Mueller is now hovering right around the 100,000 mark.
vs. Baldassari's 
flop, but Biechel didn't improve over the 
turn. This time Le checked, and after a fairly lengthy pause, Timoshenko checked behind.
, and Timoshenko took the pot.
river, but then a count-out and bet of 30k from Newman. Deeb rechecked his hand and threw in the call, tabling a rivered set of tens with