Game over for Con Angelakis. He and one other player called a bet of 1,500 from Jason Gray on a board of . When the turn came , Gray didn't slow down. He bet 4,000, folding one player but eliciting an all-in raise to 11,000 from Angelakis. Gray snap-called with the nuts, . Angelakis had top pair and was drawing dead. The on the river eliminated him from the tournament.
After a series of preflop raises, Richard Holmes committed all of his chips into the middle, but his opponent Guillaume Lignon snap-called with . Holmes cringed as he was in trouble with his .
The board bricked out and Lignon doubled up to 44,000, leaving Holmes crippled with only 2,600 chips.
In no-limit hold'em, all it takes is one big hand. Alexander Soderlund got his one big hand when he rivered a full house on a board of . Soderlund's opponent led out for 6,000, a bet that Soderlund raised to 17,000. His opponent asked him for a count (about 24,000 behind), then shoved all in for a total of 48,000. Soderlund snap-called and was shown a stone bluff, . Soderlund tabled his to take down a 92,000-chip pot and take over the chip lead.
Every poker player at one time or another has accidentally mucked a winning hand. Usually it comes at the tail end of a long session, when fatigue has set in. We don't know how long Ben Delaney's opponent was playing before sitting down for this tournament at 12:30 today, but he accidentally (and unwittingly) mucked the nuts to allow Delaney to scoop a pot.
As Delaney recounted the hand, Delaney's opponent raised preflop to 550 and was called only by Delaney, in the big blind. The flop was a big one, coming down . Delaney checked, then called a bet of 1,100. Both players checked the turn. When the river fell , Delaney made a very healthy bet of 3,000. Delaney's opponent tanked before open-mucking . It seems probable that he thought he had two pair, aces and jacks, but he had actually made a runner-runner spade flush. Not only was it a flush, but it was also the nuts!
With Evan Psarras limping into the pot from under the gun, Sam Youssef popped it up to 2,800 from late position. The big blind called before the UTG player moved all in. Youssef called for his last 3,000 and the big blind stepped aside.
Youssef tabled but the old UTG limp-shove equaled a pair of aces belonging to Psarras.
The board bricked out and Youssef was sent to the rail.