Kathy Liebert was all in preflop holding a pair of threes, . The player that called her all in was holding two overcards with . The flop came down , keeping Leibert in the lead and adding a gutshot straight draw to her hand.
The turn brought the , completing the straight and locking up at least a tie for Liebert. The river was the , enabling Liebert to earn the double up to about 50,000 chips.
Erik Cajelais moved all in for his last 3,900 chips preflop and was called by Lee Childs out of the small blind. Childs held pocket sixes and Cajelais shoved with .
The board ran out , springing Cajelais from his chair and to the rail.
The floor supervisor brought several racks to the Shane Schleger / Maria Ho / Nick Binger table in preparation to break it. This confused Schleger and Ho.
"I'm gonna ask," Ho said to Schleger. She called the floor over.
"When I asked you what the breaking order was, you said 'high to low'."
"It is," the floor replied.
"Then why are you breaking us?" She pointed out that they were at Table 70, and the last table broken was 73. The floor supervisor whistled at his mistake.
"Thank you Maria!" he added, then told the dealer to deal and sped off to Table 72.
James Taylor opened the pot to a raise of 4,500. Erik Cajelais then re-popped the action to 13,500, folds back around to Taylor who then thought for a moment, and moved all in for around 70,000. Cajelais made the call quickly and showed . Mr. Taylor tabled .
The board would run out and Cajelais is left with a dismal stack of 2,100.
It's been tough going for Jeff Lisandro to start the day. Several of his open-raises have been reraised all in. He's folded a few times and in one case doubled up an opponent.
In Lisandro's latest adventure, his open-raise preflop was called in position by Nenad Medic. We're not sure what the flop action was, but on the turn , Lisandro bet 6,500. Medic called to see the hit the river. Lisandro moved all in with that card, prompting Medic to snap-call. Lisandro's flopped set of kings, , had been brutally rivered by Medic's king-high straight, .
After the hand, Lisandro's stack was depleted to 46,000. Medic is all the way up to about 75,000.
We passed by Shane Schleger's table and noticed that Schleger had opened a pot to 3,100 preflop from middle position. Action passed to a hoodie-clad Nick Binger in the small blind. He reraised to 9,000 and was called by Schleger.
Both players checked a flop that came down . Binger led the turn for 10,500. After confirming the amount of the bet, Schleger called to the river, which again both players checked.
"Ace-high," announced Binger.
"Queen," said Schleger. Neither player opened his hand, prompting Schleger to add, "I'm gonna wait for you to show it or muck -- but I'm not lying." Binger finally showed , with Schleger's two pair taking down the pot.
Jeff Lisandro had his opponent all in preflop with his tournament life on the line. Lisandro held pocket nines, , against the all-in player's . The board ran out and the all-in player began to rise up from his seat. Just as he tossed his jacket over his shoulders, a jack hit the river and he was given life again. Lisandro sat calm and stacked out the 20,000 or so chips to send over to his opponent.
Jolyn Thompson moved all in for roughly 11,000 from early position. Action folded around to Jason "JCarver" Somerville in the small blind and he announced that he was all in. The big blind folded, leaving Thompson and Somerville heads up.
Thompson held big slick, , and was racing against Somerville's two black tens. The board ran out and Thompson made an early exit.
James Van Alstyne started the day with fewer than five big bets in his stack. As we were making our first sweep of the field, the seat card was out at his seat. Van Alstyne is busto.