We only walked up to the table after the hand was over, but we caught a glimpse of David "ODB" Baker doubling up a short stack. We aren't sure what Baker held, but it couldn't beat the of his opponent, on a board that read .
It's likely that Baker had an under pair, because we did hear him say "I was hoping you had ace king" after the hand. Regardless, Baker is down to 75,000 after the hand.
We caught the tail end of an interesting hand that left Andy Hwang with just 6,500 in chips. He was eliminated on the next hand.
In the first hand, Hwang was heads up with Raymond Dandrea on a board that had completed . There was about 45,000 in the middle, and Dandrea had put out a bet of 10,500. Hwang tanked for about 30 seconds while we were there, before eventually making the call. Dandrea tabled for just ace high, and Hwang sat up in his chair to see the hand. Then, his shoulders sunk, as he checked his cards one more time, before sending them to the dealer.
On the next hand, Ting Ho raised to 4,500 in early position, and a middle position player moved all in for his last 20,300. Hwang committed the rest of his chips out of the small blind, and when it got back around to Ho, she made the call to put both at risk.
Ho:
Hwang:
Opponent:
The board ran down , and the ace on the turn sealed Hwang's fate.
It has been quite an interesting few minutes for Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler. He came into the day fairly short with 34,000, and has just played a series of hands that has seen his stack move up and down like a seesaw.
The first hand was a big double up for Kessler. He got it all in preflop holding , and was up against the of his opponent. The board ran down , and Kessler won the race to get up to 70,000. "I needed that one," he said after the hand.
"Well I just lost it all," Kessler told us just a few minutes later. We walked over and saw that Kessler was all in against two other shorter stacks on an action packed flop of .
Opponent 1:
Opponent 2:
Kessler:
According to the table, opponent 1 open shipped on the flop, and Kessler shoved behind him. Unfortunately, his second opponent had woken up with a set that turned into quads on the turn, the . The meaningless river was the , and after that pot, Kessler was down to just 3,000.
He has not gone quietly into the night yet though. Two hands after that, Kessler doubled when his held against his opponents on a board that ran down .
"I'm all in again," Kessler said a few hands later. This time, he held and was up against the of his opponent. Again, Kessler managed to fade a ton of outs, as the board came down .
After being down to just one and a half big blinds a few minutes, Kessler is back up to 20,000.
Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler ran out of miracles on one of the first hands back from break. He open shoved his last 18,000 with in middle position, and Travis Northrope made the call from the big blind with . Neither player improved their hand, and ace high was good enough to knock out Kessler.
Rich Dixon came into today as one of our shortest stacks, with just 14,900. He joked with us on the break that he wished he could have just brought in again, so that he would have started with more chips. Well it's a good think he didn't. Dixon has worked his once measly 14,900 stack to a top five stack of 165,000. Will Dixon be able to keep it up as the day goes on?