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Hold'em
Phil Ivey is looking for his 8th bracelet. Bill Chen is looking for his third. They've both got work to do after Ivey flopped the second nut flush in a recent hold'em hand. Ivey raiesd the button, with Chen calling fro the big blind. Chen then check-called all the way down on a 
board. At showdown, Ivey tabled 
to collect the pot.
They're nearly event now. Ivey has about 2.0 million, while Chen has about 2.3 million.
Hold'em
Bill Chen raised his button. Phil Ivey called to a flop of 
, which both players checked. Ivey led the 
turn and the 
river. Chen called the first bet, but not the second. Credit another pot to Ivey.
The stacks are virtually dead even now.
Omaha-8
The action was light on a board of 
. Bill Chen raised the button and Phil Ivey called from the big blind. Ivey check-called one bet on the flop and another on the turn. Both players checked the river.
"I missed," said Chen. "King-high."
Ivey turned up a pair of sixes, 
, to take down the pot. He's got the chip lead now with about 2.6 million to Chen's 1.7 million.
Omaha-8
Every pot is going Phil Ivey's way right now. He just won two more omaha split pots, the first when Bill Chen check-called all the way on a board of 
. Ivey tabled aces and an ace-seven, 
. Chen flashed 
and mucked.
The next pot Ivey led all the way first to act, 
. Again Chen called all the way down, but he couldn't beat Ivey's set of tens, 
.
Chen is down to about 900,000.
Omaha-8
Bill Chen has, for the moment, put a halt to Phil Ivey's relentless march on Chen's chip stack. Chen called from the big blind after Ivey raised the button, then check-called the flop and turn. The river was checked by both players. With the board showing 
, Chen opened 
to make an ace-six low and a pair of sevens. Both were good.
The next hand Chen scooped again, calling the flop and turn and betting the river, when his 
was best both ways on a board of 
.
Scooping those two pots has pushed Chen back up to about 1.5 million.
Razz
Nothing happened in razz. One hand made it to fourth street. Consider it a five-minute break. Now we're on to stud. Phil Ivey still has the lead, roughly 2.8 million to 1.5 million.
Stud
And that was our five-minute stud break. We're on to stud split now, still without much change in the stacks.
Stud-8
Ivey: X-X / 
/ X
Chen: X-X / 
/ X
Now that the games has moved to stud split, the action has picked up again. Phil Ivey brought it in on third street, then called Bill Chen's completion bet. Ivey called another bet on fourth street, then put in a raise on fifth street. Bill Chen called that raise.
Ivey made open kings on sixth street and bet them. Chen called, but couldn't find another call on the river. He folded to Ivey's last bet.
The players are on a break. Phil Ivey said he would skip it, but Bill Chen wanted to take it.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,300,000 | |
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|
1,000,000 | |
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