The Brasilia Room lacks the energy of the Amazon Room. It's difficult to explain, but things in here always seem more subdued than across the hall. Maybe it's the fact that the room has less than half of the tables of the Amazon Room, maybe it's the fact that there's no TV table, or maybe it's the fact that there are no cash games in the room.
The fact that we're playing stud-8 surely can't help matters.
Al Barbieri picked up a few thousand chips since last we saw him, and now has a nice 13,000. David Sklansky is close behind with 12,000, and Bryan Micon has 10,600.
In a three-way pot, Kristy Gazes was all in on third street, showing the . Two opponents went all the way to the river with her, creating a substantial side pot which they ultimately split. For the main pot, Gazes came up with a full house, tens full of eights, after starting with split tens, making two pair by fifth street and an open-ended straight draw on sixth street. She won half of the main pot but was still very, very short.
We caught up with a hand in progress on Brasilia #32. Pete Hassett bet 600 and was called. A third player then raised all in to 1,150. Hassett wanted to reraise and was told that because the third player had not made a full bet, Hassett would be raising himself and therefore was limited to calling or folding. The table didn't seem to agree with the ruling (Phil Hellmuth was particularly vocal in questioning it) but a second floor was summoned who made the same ruling.
It didn't matter; after Hassett called the raise of the all-in player, the player in-between the two of them folded.
Scott Clements found a whole bunch of picture cards on his board after getting all of his chips in on fifth street. He was called by one opponent.
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Clements' opponent was four to a straight and four to a low. He wound up catching the and the to make two pair, sevens and fours. Clements, however, caught running kings to make two pair, kings and queens, and scoop the pot.