You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that it's gonna be a long, long time before Eric Vargo will be able to look at another player's pocket Fours without getting sick. After calling another player's all-in bet Vargo turned over pocket Tens to his opponent's pocket Fours. The board brough no cards that threatened Vargo's hand...until the spiked on the river. The other player's friends went bersek on the rail as Vargo watched as the pot was pushed the other way.
On the very next hand, Vargo moved in his last 16,000 with and was called by a player holding...pocket Fours. And the flop came . Adding insult to injury (as if Vargo could've felt any worse), the turn and river came , giving him an utterly meaningless two pair.
After Will Jordan raised to 20,000 Michael Mizrachi moved all in for 26K more. Jordan called with , the Grinder had . The flop missed both players but Mizrachi caught the on the turn to take the lead, a lead he held for just a few seconds as the spiked on the river to give Jordan the pot and end Mizrachi's day.
When he moved in under the gun for his last 88K with and was called by Cort Kibler-Melby with . The board helped neither player and Kibler-Melby's King-high sent Berman to the rail.
There's never really a BAD time to look down and see two aces, but it's especially good when two players have already moved all in ahead of you.
That's the situation Thomas Middelthon found himself in after Alvan Silverberg pushed in all of his chips and Kao Saetern moved all in as well. Middelthon called with his , Saetern showed , and Silverberg held .
The didn't give his opponents even a glimmer of hope, and that massive hand propelled Middelthon's stack to 530,000.
For the second time this evening Greg "FBT" Mueller raised with pocket kings and had a player come over the top for all his chips. This time his opponent had pocket nines, didn't improve, and Mueller now has 315K.
With the board reading Leandro Pimentel's opponent moved all in and he called with . The other player flopped trips with , but the on the river failed to pair the board and that elimination boosted Pimentel's stack up to 340K.
He moved in the last of his chips with pocket deuces and ran into the pocket jacks of John Hunt. No ducks appeared the rest of the way and Herbst was eliminated.