Sam Farha raised, Michael DeMichele called on the button and Eli Elezra called from the small blind. The flop was and the action was checked around. The turn was the . Eli bet all in for 38,000, Farha called and DeMichele called. The river was the . Farha bet and DeMichele called.
Farha showed for the nut low, Elezra showed for a pair of queens for high and they split the pot. Elezra had 145,000 after the hand.
Sam Farha opened for a raise, Eli Elezra called on the button and James Mackey called from the big blind. The flop was . Mackey led out, Farha raised, Elezra folded and Mackey called. The turn was the . Mackey bet, Farha raised, Mackey re-raised and Farha called. The river was the . Mackey bet and Farha called.
Mackey rolled over for a full house, Farha mucked, and Mackey scooped the pot, increasing his stack to 1.1 million.
Anthony Rivera brings it in with a , James Mackey completes showing a , Sam Farha raises with a up and the action is on Eli Elezra. He counts out his chips and asks a similarly short-stacked Farha for a count. Elezra has him covered by only a single 1,000 chip. Eli re-raises all in showing a . Rivera folds, Mackey calls and Farha calls all in.
Mackey ( ) (x)
Farha ( ) (x)
Elezra ( ) ()
Mackey bricks big time, ultimately making trip aces despite picking up a wheel draw on fourth. Farha bricks as well and Elezra makes 8-7-6-5-4 to take it down and eliminate Farha. He'll take home $85,728 for his finish.
Matt Glantz completed the bet and then Michael DeMichele raised. Glantz reraised and DeMichele called.
Action was bet all the way to to sixth by Glantz with DeMichele calling behind.
Glantz: (x-x)
DeMichele: (x-x)
When the action switched and DeMichele led on sixth, Glantz folded. DeMichele spread his arms and gave a little dance before he scooped the pot. With that pot, DeMichele is at 500,000.
Eli Elezra and Matt Glantz looked around the table at the other younger players in the field and Glantz commented, "If you get out Eli, I'm gonna feel like the oldest man ever."
Eli then asked the other three players how old they were and each of them stated that they were in their twenties.
Anthony Rivera had the bring-in with the , Michael DeMichele completed with the , Eli Elezra raised with the , Rivera folded, DeMichele re-raised, and Elezra called all in.
Eli turned up in the hole, but DeMichele had rolled-up threes. DeMichele made threes full of deuces by the river, and Elezra couldn't improve. He's eliminated in 5th place and hit the rail to collect his $108,288 in earnings.
James Mackey raised under the gun to 45,000. Matt Glantz re-raised from the button to 145,000. Action folded back to Mackey and he thought before folding.
Two hands later, action folded to Mackey in the small blind and he raised to 50,000. Glantz called out of the big blind. The flop came and Mackey checked.
Glantz studied before betting 82,000. Mackey called.
The turn came the and Mackey checked again. Glantz studied even longer this time and then bet 145,000. Mackey quickly folded.
Glantz is approaching two million with no one else over one million.