Sirous Jamshidi check-called Fabio Coppola's bets all the way down the board, only to find that his was absolutely no good by that point against Jamshidi's .
Coppola exploded. "Oh my god, what did you call with on the flop? How did he call that flop? Jesus..."
Said Scott Bohlman: "You need to start a blog immediately."
The next hand, Coppola managed to flop two sets holding on an flop -- and still managed to lose out to Josh Schlein who scooped at the end of the hand. More shouting from the emotional Italian, and he violently swept his former chips towards Schlein and turned for a bit of sympathy to his buddy Cristiano Blanco at the rail.
John Monnette raised under the gun and it folded right around to Michael Keiner on the button, who reraised. Monnette called all in, failed to outdraw Keiner's aces, and busted out in 10th.
Monnette:
Keiner:
Board:
A gentlemanly handshake between the two players, and Monnette is bust while Keiner's up to 390,000
Josh Schlein raised under the gun and Fabio Coppola called him from the small blind; both then proceeded to check the flop.
Coppola bet out on the turn and again on the river and both times Schlein called -- but mucked when Coppola turned over for a straight. Disappointingly no histrionics from the excitable Italian this time round -- it seems he only sings when he's losing.
Pat Poels raised, and called a reraise from Scott Bohlman in the big blind.
Bohlman bet out on the flop and Poels called, and when Bohlman bet out again on the turn, Poels raised all in. They turned their cards over.
Bohlman:
Poels:
River: a fateful gives-Bohlman-a-flush
When they counted down the stacks, it was discovered that Poels covered Bohlman by, er, 1,000. Yes, that's a chip, and of course he still had his chair.
He managed to get his stack back up to the heady heights of around 4,000, but a couple hands later and he met his inevitable demise. We're down to eight.
A curious hand, where Sirous Jamshidi, Scott Bohlman and Michael Keiner all checked an flop, and then both Bohlman and Keiner called a bet from Jamshidi on the turn.
Come the river it was Bohlman's turn to bet; both players called, and Jamshidi took the high with a straight, Bohlman tabled the nut low, and Keiner seems to have just got caught in the middle of it all -- he mucked.
After our unexpected high-speed start, play has now rather slowed down to a more dignified O8 chopped-pots-all-over-the-place crawl. Blinds are up soon though...
Splitting up the pots in the last hand was very messy. Fabio Coppola opened preflop with a raise before Mark Gregorich three-bet. Mark Tenner called from the small blind, as did Coppola.
Tenner led the action on every street of a board. By the turn, Gregorich was all in for his last 13,000, creating a side pot between Coppola and Tenner that included some of the turn bets and all of the river bets.
At showdown, the hands were:
Tenner:
Coppola:
Gregorich:
Tenner's nut low and two pair, kings and fours, was good for three-quarters of the side pot. Coppola got one-quarter of that pot. As for the main pot, Tenner got half of the low and half of the high, with Gregorich and Coppola each taking a remaining quarter.
By our gorilla math, it would seem that the only person who made money on the hand was Tenner.