Casey Kastle limped into the pot from early position. Three other people limped in behind him before the player in the big blind raised to 4,500. Kastle was playing roughly 12,000 behind and shipped it all into the middle. That cleared out all of the limpers, but the big blind made the call.
BB:
Kastle:
Kastle thought the big blind may have just been making a move, but he turned over a real hand that had Kastle's pocket nines in bad shape. The flop changed things around, coming to give Kastle a set. That was the winning hand after the turn and river came small cards, and . He now has 25,200.
Damien Oborne has been on a long downswing that just got almost as long as it can get. He wound up all in with against the of Toto Leonidas. Oborne flopped a diamond draw, to go along with his outs to a pair of nines, but it never filled. The turn and river bricked out and .
Leonidas now has 15,500 chips. Oborne was left with just 425.
Norihito Suzuki has been crushing his table today, but he's also picked up a pinch of luck when he's needed it. Just before the dinner break was called, Suzuki sent two somewhat short-stacked players to the rail on the same hand. He led out on a flop of after one opponent checked. A player behind Suzuki raised all in and the first player called all in for less. Suzuki called as well for another three-way all-in pot!
Suzuki:
Player 1:
Player 2:
Suzuki was in extremely rough shape. One player had a better pair of aces than he did; the other had a flush draw, taking away one of Suzuki's two-pair outs. But it was no problem for Suzuki; he hit running tens to make a full house and take out two opponents.
Chip Me Up player Damien Oborne has found two needed double-up's prior to dinner.
The first one came when his took down an opponent's on a board that read . The next came when he went all in dark against Toto Leonidas with against and the board filled out .
Oborne is heading to dinner with a stack of 2,000 in chips.
Wally Sombero is feeling very comfortable in the Dusit Thani ballroom that is serving as the venue for this event. Despite the chill in the air from the HVAC system, Sombero is running hot. He led out 2,300 in a three-way limped pot on a flop of , then was faced with a big decision when the player in the small blind check-raised all in for 8,400. Sombero made the call with and was elated to see that his intuition was correct -- his opponent was on a flush draw with .
"Red! Red!" Sombero called out as the dealer burned and turned the rest of the board. He got his request. The turn and river were both red cards -- and . Sombero's pair of queens held up to increase his count by another 9,500 chips total.
Eddie Hearn found no callers after moving in for 16,000 over the top of a button raise to 1,600. He showed queens when no one else called.
"He's my mate," Hearn said, pointing at the button player. "We talked earlier. I've got confidence."
"I'd have a lot of confidence too if I was in the small blind with queens," another player responded.
At the next table over, Casey Kastle and Toto Leonidas were discussing the pros and cons of the schedule for the 2009 World Series of Poker, which was released earlier in the week.