Jeff Hakim has been relatively quiet all day, but his chip stack just juiced itself up on some steroids in the past few moments. Hakim got all in three ways holding pocket aces. He was up against one player holding and the other holding pocket queens -- not a bad spot at all for Hakim to be in.
The case ace flopped and Hakim went on to win the hand, jolting his stack to 58,000 chips.
The player in the cutoff seat raised to 600 before Andrew Feldman three-bet to 1,800 from the small blind. The player called and the two took a flop of . Feldman fired 1,450 and won the pot to move to 46,000 chips.
Karina Jett just forced a player to yell out for a rebuy after her made a full house on the board of . Her opponent held the and all the money went in on the flop. She's now up to 58,000 chips.
Jeff Hakim called a bet of 1,500 from an opponent on the flop of . The turn brought the and both players checked. The river was the and both players checked again.
Hakim bested his opponent's with his to win the pot and push his stack to 60,000 chips.
We arrived at Andrew Feldman's table and found a pot with over 14,000 in the middle and the board reading .
Feldman checked, one opponent checked, and Eric Liu checked as well, landing the on the river. Once again all three checked, not what Feldman was hoping for. He tabled for a straight flush, but clearly wished somebody else could have had a club. Eric Liu flashed for the flopped set that quickly lost its strength.
Feldman: Up to about 57,000
Liu: Down to about 32,000
A player in early-middle position raised to 650 before Antonio Esfandiari reraised to 1,750. The original raiser made the call. The flop came down and action checked to Esfandiari. He fired 2,125 and won the pot.
Although it wasn't much, Esfandiari has been on a pretty steep slide since getting up to about 60,000 at one point. He's now back to 28,000 with this pot and things may just be on the up and up.