Lee Goldman raised to 115,000 under the gun, and Mark Drover reraised to 265,000 from the cutoff. In the big blind, Phil D'Auteuil took a peek at his cards and reraised again — all in for 1.375 million. Goldman folded without too much hesitation, but Drover spent a couple long minutes sitting like a statue with his arms crossed over his chest. When he finally did flinch, it was to uncap his cards and slide them into the muck with a little frown, and D'Auteuil pulled in some free chips to increase his stack.
When the table folded around to his small blind, Alex Fitzgerald raised to 145,000 with Xuan Liu behind him. Liu must have liked what she saw, because she reraised to 365,000, but Fitzgerald wasn't going anywhere. He four-bet shoved for just a shade less than 2.1 million, almost as much as Liu had. She spent just a couple seconds making sure — it was quite a decision to be faced with — but the call came surprisingly quickly to put Fitzgerald at risk.
Showdown
Fitzgerald:
Liu:
Liu was in front with ace-queen, but Fitzgerald was suited and drawing very live to the huge pot.
He wasn't drawing live for long. In fact, the flop was a disaster that ended things right then and there. Fitzgerald was already eliminated two cards early as Liu's trip aces could not be beaten.
The turn and river are only here to prove the deck was fair, but Fitzgerald was already long gone by the time the dealer grabbed his stacks and pushed them across to Liu.
We've got one lady left, and she's teaching these boys a lesson right now. Liu is the chip daddy(?) with more than 4.4 million in front of her now.
It looks like all 13 players are back in their seats, and the cards are in the air. We're playing with the same 5,000 ante, but the small blind is now 30,000 and the large blind 60,000.
From the cutoff, Martin Jacobson opened to 125,000, and Kyle Julius came along with a smooth call from the button. The two of them took a flop with Julius calling a continuation bet, and Jacobson fired another 260,000 after the on the turn. Julius called that one too, then another 500,000 straight when the rivered.
Jacobson had his hand caught in the proverbial cookie jar. His had missed, and Julius' made the winning two pair to scoop up that big pot.
In middle position, Anthony Gregg came in with a raise to 250,000, and the action came around to the button. There, David Bernstein took a couple minutes staring and stacking up chips, and he stuck in a reraise to 250,000 total. Gregg called, and off they went.
Check-check was good enough on the flop, and Gregg took the betting lead on the turn. His bet of 185,000 went uncalled as Bernstein surrendered, and the latter has fallen back under the million-chip mark with that little slide.
We picked up the action as Nikolaos Alafogiannis was opening the pot to 120,000 from middle position. In the small blind, Xuan Liu was thinking three-bet, and she made it a total of 310,000 to go. The call came from Alafogiannis, and they were heads up to the flop.
It brought and a continuation bet of 240,000 from Liu, and Alafogiannis could not proceed. He mucked, and Liu took the pot.
In middle position, Kyle Julius made it 125,000 to go, and he found action in two spots as both Daniel Shiff (button) and Nikolaos Alafogiannis (big blind) came along with him.
The flop came out , and Julius continued out with 135,000. Shiff shoved all in, though, and that folded both opponents and allowed him to chip his way up to 1.5 million.
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flop was a disaster that ended things right then and there. Fitzgerald was already eliminated two cards early as Liu's trip aces could not be beaten.
and river 
are only here to prove the deck was fair, but Fitzgerald was already long gone by the time the dealer grabbed his stacks and pushed them across to Liu.
flop with Julius calling a continuation bet, and Jacobson fired another 260,000 after the 
on the turn. Julius called that one too, then another 500,000 straight when the 
had missed, and Julius' 
made the winning two pair to scoop up that big pot.
flop, and Gregg took the betting lead on the 
turn. His bet of 185,000 went uncalled as Bernstein surrendered, and the latter has fallen back under the million-chip mark with that little slide.
