Amir Vahedi raised preflop to 5,000 and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi called in position. The flop came down and Vahedi checked. Mizrachi bet 5,000 and Vahedi called.
The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the and Amir bet 8,000. The Grinder made the call and showed .
"Two pair?" question Vahedi quickly when he saw Mizrachi's cards. He then tossed his hand into the muck.
As the dealer pulled the cards in, Vahedi got a closer look at Mizrachi's cards and realized he didn't have two pair. "Oh my god, I can't believe it," he said.
After a raise and a reraise, Matt LaGarde got Justin Filtz to push all in preflop for 74,000. When the hands were revealed, LaGarde showed while Filtz showed .
When the board ran out , LaGarde was sitting on a stack of more than 261,000 while Filtz headed toward the door.
We picked this up after the flop. With the board showing , Ghio Luong had pushed 60,000 into the pot. Kathy Liebert, who was sitting on just 50,000, took about a minute before finally calling for her tournament life.
Kathy turned up while Luong tabled . The board ran out , and Kathy failed to improve.
Luong has now moved up among the chip leaders, with a stack around 150,000.
Steve Wong pushed his stack into the middle with pocket jacks and got called by Matt Lagarde's pocket kings. Steve didn't improve, and was sent to the rail.
Over at Theo Tran and Matt Brady's table, the players have engaged in some conversation focused on the recent episodes of High Stakes Poker, in which Tom "durrrr" Dwan played. The players seemed to love the way Dwan played certain key hands and have been analyzing how good he really is. The consensus seems to be that Dwan is a world-class player with amazing talents.