Sammy Farha and his opponent got all in on a board of
Farha:
Opponent:
When the cards were shown, Farha's opponent was drawing dead and the on the river was just an unnecessary needle on his way out the door. Farha is up to 72,000.
As tables break, the field is being pared down and much of the dead weight is being eliminated. As the players get shuffled around, a few challenging tables have started coming together. Table 29 is certainly a candidate for toughest table in the tournament, probably the clear leader in that regard. Tom Schneider is the most-recent addition to the neighborhood, but the table was stacked before he ever moved in. Just look at this:
Seat 1: Shane Warne
Seat 3: Ludovic Lacay
Seat 6: Luca Pagano
Seat 7: Isaac Baron
Seat 8: Grant Levy
Seat 9: Tom Schneider
Three players, including Bill Edler, each put 6,700 chips into the pot before a flop of .
Action folded to the cutoff who bet 9,500, inducing one fold and a check-call from Edler. Edler then checked the on the turn and went deep into the tank when his opponent moved all in for 36,000.
Calling would cost Edler most of his stack and, after a few minutes, he reluctantly mucked his hand. After he folded, one of the other players asked the cutoff to show his deuce. Edler responded, "That's what I had, but I had no kicker. He had to have a bigger deuce."
When all was said and done, Edler was left with 42,000 after the hand.
Peter Hedlund was getting low on chips, and the remaining ~24,000 of them went into the pot on a flop of . His lone opponent didn't look too happy about it, but he made the call with . Hedlund was at risk but in the lead with .
The turn bricked off with the , and the on the end locked up a double for Hedlund. He's back up to just over 50,000 now.
Holding , Amarillo Slim tried to push his opponent off his hand, but the lad called with pocket nines. The nines held and Slim bid adieu to the 2009 World Series of Poker.
Burt Boutin may want his last hand back to do over. Boutin opened for 3,000 from middle position and was called by a player behind him and a player in the blinds. All three of them checked the flop. When the turn fell , the small blind bet 5,100. Boutin raised that bet to 15,100 and was called by the player behind him. The small blind folded.
The river paired kings, . Boutin checked and watched the action check behind. His , trip kings, was a winner. Boutin has 130,000 after adding that pot to his stack.
We missed all the action until the river. With the board showing , Owen Crowe bet 32,000, leaving himself 15,000 behind. His opponent made a huge laydown and open-mucked pocket tens, which had flopped top set.
There was 22,000 in the pot on the turn, the board reading . Sorel Mizzi led out for 11,000 and the button called. The landed on the river and Mizzi fired another 28,000. The button gave up his hand and Mizzi raked in a hefty pot, taking his stack up to 140,000.