On a flop of , Barny Boatman moved all in from the small blind with his opponent from early position making the call.
Boatman:
Opponent:
With Boatman in desperate need to spike a king or a ten, the turn of the changed little before the on the river saw Boatman complete his straight to move to 48,000.
In the major tournament area on table twenty-eight we find Mitchell Carle and Joel Cohen.
Doesn't sound like too tough of a table. No offense of course.
Well that's until we introduce the next three players.
Phil Ivey. Patrik Antonius. Howard Lederer.
This is not a level.
On one of the first hands they tangled, Lederer opened with a raise from under the gun with Antonius defending his big blind to see a flop fall.
Lederer's 3,500-chip continuation-bet was check-called by Antonius as the on the turn was checked through to see the land on the river. Antonius led for 11,000, and after several moments of deliberation, Lederer relinquished.
Steve Topakas opened to a raise to 3,200, but threw out a yellow 5,000-denomination chip and two 100-denomination chips.
Carter Phillips - assuming it was a raise to 5,200 - made that call before the dealer deemed his chips in the pot to be a raise. Topakas pushed and Phillips made the call to put the local tournament regular at risk.
Topakas:
Phillips:
With Topakas in the lead, the flop was a safe one for him, but when the spiked on the turn, a now standing Topakas kicked his chair as the completed the board.
"Nice hand!" announced Topakas as he shook his head before making his way to the rail. Phillips is now up to 200,000 in chips.
Emad Tahtouh was all in against fellow local player John Dalessandri.
Tahtouh:
Dalessandri:
The board filled out to see Dalessandri spike and when the race to move to 35,000 as Tahtouh was left crippled with just 2,300.
Just a few hands later, Tahtouh found himself all in preflop against two players, but when the board of was spread, Tahtouh was unable to best his opponent's .