Alexander Kravchenko just won a big pot with pocket queens to move to 200,000 in chips. He was up against Jared Jaffee who held pocket jacks. Kravchenko flopped a queen and led the betting the entire way with Jaffe making the call. Jaffee dropped back to about 220,000.
A few hands after his recent double up John D'Agostino raised from middle position, going all in, in an Omaha 8/b hand with Matt Vengrin calling from the button and Dario Minieri calling from the small blind.
The flop came and Minieri bet with Vengrin calling. The two would follow the same betting pattern with the on the turn and the on the river.
When it was time to show the cards they looked something like this:
D'Agostino:
Minieri:
Vengrin:
D'Agostino won the high from the main pot with his straight. Minieri and Vengrin split the main low.
Minieri won the high portion of the side pot and once more split the low portion with Vengrin.
When the hand was complete, Vengrin asked Minieri how he could bet the river with nothing but a pair of threes. Scott Seiver chimed in and said it was because he had a lock on the low.
Alexander Wice: (X)(X) / - fold
Chris Dombrowski: (X)(X) / / (X)
Matt Vengrin: (X)(X) / / (X)
Dombrowski was all in by fourth street with Vengrin driving the action all the way. Wice called up until sixth street, when he folded the from the hole face up. Dombrowski held the underneath and Vengrin the . Vengrin's last card was the and Dombrowski's was the .
Vengrin eliminated Dombrowski and now has a massive amount of chips for about 325,000. He has a pile of chips in front of his stack and is stacking his chips in a very weird way so that it's almost impossible to eye the exact amount. Even Vengrin couldn't tell us how much he had.
Bill Chen was down to just over 16,000 chips after antes had been paid and was forced to make the bring in with the . Stephen Su raised from across the table with the and Chen three-bet all in with Su calling.
Chen: / /
Su: / /
Chen was ahead with his twos at the start and stayed there through the rest of the hand, but Su caught a seven on the river to make for a higher pair, sending Chen to the rail.
We missed the action on the hand, but John D'Agostino has succumbed on the short stack. He entered the day as the short stack and could only muster one double up before finally exiting to the rail. He earned $7,585 in prize money for his finish.
Scott Seiver opened the pot with a raise from middle position and Jared Jaffee flatted from the hijack seat. Matt Vengrein squeezed out a three-bet from the big blind, but Seiver came back over the top with a four-bet. Jaffeee and Vengrin both folded. Vengrin showed that he was indeed squeezing with the .