And thousands of poker forum posters faint simultaneously.
Just before we switched back to limit, Patrik Antonius raises to 2,600 in the cutoff and Jimmy "gobboboy" Fricke calls in the big blind. The flop is . Fricke checks. Antonius bets 4,000 and Fricke calls. The turn is . Fricke checks. Antonius bets 10,500 and Fricke calls. The river is . Fricke checks. Antonius bets 21,000 and Fricke calls. Antonius shows and Fricke mucks. Antonius has 98,000 and Fricke is down to 29,000.
Danny Wong raised to 800 from early position, and Isaac Haxton called from the hijack. Stephen Wolff reraised to 4,000 from the cutoff. Adam Westell then bumped it up to 12,000.
We weren't finished. Wong then pushed all in to 21,700. Haxton folded. Wolff reraised all in to 32,400, and Westell made the call. There were three good reasons for all the preflop action:
Westell: .
Wong: .
Wolff: .
The board ran out , and Wong tripled up to 73,000. Wolff's kings gave him the side pot, and he is now at 21,400. Westell hit the rail.
Bob Lauria, Matt Woodward and Andrew Robl are all in preflop. Lauria has A-J, Woodward has A-Q, and Robl has K-K. The board runs . Lauria is out, Woodward is down to 9,000, and Robl skies to 60,000.
In the cutoff, Theodore Park is all in preflop and Bill Klein calls in the big blind. Park has to Klein's . The sick board runs out and Klein is knocked down to 15,000. Park moves on up to 55,000.
From the LHE round: Andy Bloch bet from late position, Josh Arieh raised from the cutoff, and Bloch called. Flop came . Bloch check-called. Turn was the , and this time Bloch check-folded to Arieh's bet.
Bloch has nevertheless built up to a healthy 78,000 in chips, while Arieh is coming on with 51,000.
Before the No Limit round, Jordan Smith and Al Adler are all in on a flop of . Smith turns over to Adler's . The turn and river are and Smith doubles through Adler to 24,000. Adler is left with 11,000.