It may be Alan Sternberg's day today. He continues to make hands and avoid draws. He opened for 53,000 from middle position and was called by Andrew Ferguson. Sternberg continued for 65,000 on a flop of . Ferguson, silent for most of the day, raised that bet to 180,000.
Sternberg paused and asked Ferguson how much he was playing. Ferguson responded that he had close to a million chips. Armed with that information, Sternberg called.
Both players checked the turn and river . Sternberg opened top pair, . Ferguson disgustedly flipped into the muck, saying something about "a million outs".
Alistar Melville raised to 60,000 on the button and Scott Seiver called from the big blind.
The flop fell and Seiver check-called 60,000. The turn brought the and both checked. Seiver bet 50,000 when the river hit and Melville called immediately. Seiver showed , but Melville tabled for a rivered set.
Table 1
Seat 1: Andrew Ferguson
Seat 2: Vanessa Selbst
Seat 3: Vanessa Rousso Team PokerStars Pro
Seat 4: Peter Jetten
Seat 5: Zachary Fritz
Seat 6: Michael Woods
Seat 7: Alan Sternberg
Seat 8: Elio Fox
Table 2
Seat 1: Jonathan "FatalError" Aguiar
Seat 2: Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy
Seat 3: Alistar Melville
Seat 4: Brandon Hall
Seat 5: Scott Seiver
Seat 6: Mike Beasley
Seat 7: Jordan Morgan
Seat 8: Derek Raymond
As you can see, Seiver's table has a lot of the same players that were on his starting table and in a similar order. Seiver and Aguiar both expressed their complaints about this, claiming that, "it's almost mathematically impossible to redraw like this." They argued that the seat cards weren't shuffled properly, but players at the other table witnessed the seat cards get shuffled and mixed up before they were passed out. That's just the luck of the draw, or not in this matter.
On the last hand before the re-draw, Scott Seiver called a pre-flop raise to 80,000 made by Brandon Hall. Both players checked the flop. Seiver also checked the turn. Hall fired 80,000 chips into the pot and Seiver called.
The river came . Seiver checked a third time, then sighed and looked pained when Hall bet 145,000. He called and mucked after Hall tabled for top pair.
Peter Jetten raised to 55,000 in the cutoff and James Casement Sr. called from the big blind.
The flop came down and Casement checked. Jetten bet 65,000 and Casement went all in for about 380,000. Jetten insta-called and tabled for the flopped straight. Casement needed a lot of help, turning up .
The turn card gave him a chance, but the river card was the and Casement is out in 17th place.
From middle position, Vanessa Rousso open-limped again as she has been doing quite often when she enters a hand. Action then folded to Elio Fox in the small blind and he moved all in for about 300,000. After Michael Woods folded the big blind, Rousso got an estimate on the price and then mucked face up to allow Fox to scoop the chips.
Mike Beasley limped, and somehow Vanessa Selbst folded her small blind. Petter Jetten raised from the big blind. Beasley called to see the flop. Jetten bet out 100,000 in pink chips, and Mr. Aces Suck raised to 250,000. That was enough for him to take it down.