After leading for the best part of two days, Hasan Habib was recently eliminated from the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event and will go home empty-handed for his troubles.
Gus Hansen opened for a raise from middle position, Erik Seidel called on the button, John Kabbaj called from the small blind and Bill Chen called from the big blind.
The flop came down . The action was checked to Hansen, who bet. Seidel folded, Kabbaj folded, Chen raised and Hansen called. Both players checked the on the turn. The river was the and Chen check-called a bet from Hansen.
Hansen turned over , his pair of kings good enough to take the pot. He's up to 800,000 while Chen is all the way down to 130,000.
We caught the action on fifth street with Ray Dehkharghani firing a bet and Brett Richey making the call.
On sixth, Dehkharghani fired again before the players checked down the river. Dehkharghani revealed () for eights and threes to take the pot as Richey mucked.
A short-stacked Bill Chen has found back-to-back double ups in Omaha-8 against Chau Giang.
In the first hand Chen was all in with against Chau Giang's . The board ran out to give Chen a wheel for the low and six-high straight for the high to scoop his way back to 80,000 chips.
A moment or two later the two were at it again. Chen fired the turn and the checked down the river on a board of .
"I got half," said Chen, and tabled for the low.
"No, you got the whole lot," replied Giang as he showed .
"Scoop again? With queen-high?" laughed a surprised Chen as he's now back to 120,000 chips.
Tony G has just received an official warning. He was joking with Mikhail Tulchinskiy and asked him how many chips he held. Nothing strange about that, except that he asked in Russian.
He also didn't realize a tournament director was standing right behind him, and the G copped a warning and was told to speak in only English at the tables!