Tom Schneider was all in preflop with against Jens Voertmann's pocket jacks. Schneider did not catch and ace and as a result he becomes our 20th-place finisher.
Our friendly neighborhood Tournament Director just informed us that we are playing to 16 players "no matter what." She then followed that up with, "That's the story as it stands right now. It could change."
I couldn't have put it better. Play continues.
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Hoyt Corkins bet the whole way before checking sixth street and firing again on the river showing . Mallory Smith held but folded to the river bet, while JJ Hazan called Corkins down.
Hazan tabled () for trip nines which was good to scoop as Corkins mucked his hand.
Corkins is down to 93,000 while Hazan jumps to 165,000.
Mickey Appleman has just doubled up through Farzad Rouhani after making a straight with a board of (J-10-X) 8-7-9-K. Rouhani was showing 2-4-8-2 but threw the river card back at the dealer in disgust when he saw Appleman make the straight and realized he was drawing dead.
Steve Zolotow was the bring-in and Rostislav Tsodikov limped showing an eight. Every one else folded and the two players went to fourth street. Tsodikov paired his eight and bet out. Zolotow checked his hole cards and folded saying, "I better fold in case he has four eights!"
This drew a chuckle from the table, but not as much as when Tsodikov flashed the other two eights in the hole as he did indeed have quad eights!
Unfortunately for Tsodikov the excitement of the hand was bigger than the pot!
Tom Schneider made it two bets to go on third street and Blair Rodman made the call. Schneider proceeded to bet out on both fourth and fifth street, and Rodman called each time. On sixth street, the board were as follows:
Rodman:
Schneider:
Rodman bet out with his pair of queens and received a call. On the river, Rodman bet out again and Schneider made yet another call. Rodman showed ( ) for queens full. Schneider mucked.
After the hand Rodman is up to 145,000 chips, while Schneider is down to 47,000.
With five overcards on the board and no low hand, Jens Voertmann has just made an amazing call holding only pocket fours against JJ Hazan. Remarkably the fours were good as Hazan showed A-2-2-3.
"How can you call there? I had the only hand you beat!" questioned a shocked Hazan as Voertmann tried to explain his reasoning to the table!