The day of Chad Brown is stuck in second gear as the Team PokerStars Pro just can't seem to get things moving in the right direction today. After being short early today, it looked like Brown was starting to get himself back into this event but he's just taken another hit against Phil Ivey.
With about 17,000 in the pot on a board of Brown fired 7,000 on the river and Ivey made the call. Brown shook his head and revealed as his pair had been counterfeited by the two pair on board. That can happen when you're up against Phil Ivey as he showed to take it with his ace kicker.
With the board reading on the river, Sam Stein moved all-in for 30,250 into the 29,000 pot. His opponent, Phil Galfond, started to tank and told the table he'd need a "couple of minutes" to make his decision. Believing they had enough time to make it there and back while Galfond tanked, tablemates Juha Helppi and Isaac Haxton took off for the restroom.
When they returned a few minutes later, Galfond was still tanking. Finally, he made the call.
Stein showed for eights full of threes and Galfond mucked. He's down to 58,000 while Stein is now on 90,000 in chips.
We arrived at Steve Billirakis' table just in time for a showdown. The board read and Alexander Roumeliotis had put him to a decision for his last 30,000 chips on the river. Billirakis made the call.
Roumeliotis showed for aces up and Billirakis hit the rail. Roumeliotis holds the current chip lead with 260,000.
On a flop of , Roberto Romanello checked to Shaun Deeb, who bet 3,700. Romanello called and they went to the turn which fell the . Romanello check-called another 7,300 from Deeb. The river was the and Romanello checked a third time. Deeb bet 22,400 and Romanello called.
Deeb showed for top two pair and took down the pot. He's up to 124,000 while Romanello slipped to 30,000.
Howard Lederer was one of our late registrations into this event, but he might've preferred to wait a little longer to take his seat after a cooler of a hand went against him to send him crashing to the rail in dramatic fashion.
Catching the action on a flop of , play was checked to Chris Ferguson who fired 1,500. Mikael Thuritz put in a check-raise to 7,000 before Lederer moved all in over the top for about 70,000. Ferguson folded but Thuritz snap-called.
Lederer:
Thuritz:
It was nut flush versus second nut flush as "The Professor" rose from his seat in dismay at what had just unfolded.
The turn and river were rather meaningless and after a count down of chips, Thuritz just had him covered and Lederer made a hasty exit from the Amazon Room. Ferguson stated that he folded top two pair so he was able to escape cheaply as Thuritz jumps up to 155,000.
"There's a lot more there than there was before," said Daniel Negreanu to our reporter who was counting his stack. We eyeballed it at around 210,000 and Negreanu informed us that he cracked Saar Wilf's pocket aces to get the chips.
According to Negreanu, Wilf raised and Negreanu flatted with the . The flop came and Wilf fired. Negreanu called. Wilf then barreled the blank turn and blank river, to which Negreanu called off.
Many of the Team PokerStars members in the field have a fellow tablemate donning the red spade badge on their sleeve as well. Joe Cada and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier are seated next to one another on one table while Ivan Demidov and Barry Greenstein are at another table together. Vanessa Rousso and Lex Veldhuis started the day together and are still bumping elbows at their table while Dario Minieri, William Thorson and Ville Wahlbeck are all at the same late-registrant table.
Vanessa Rousso opened for 1,300 from the hijack position with Chris Moore and Beth Shak making the call in the blinds to see a flop of .
All three players checked and the turn brought the . Moore took a stab with a bet of 2,300. It removed Beth Shak from the equation as she folded but Rousso hung around to see the complete the board on the river.
Moore checked it over to Rousso who decided to check behind. Moore tabled which was enough to win the pot. Rousso slips to 46,000 with Moore up to 70,000.
We walked over to Dario MInieri's tabled and noticed that he now has twice the starting stack with about 155,000 in chips. We also noticed that Jeffrey Lisandro's seat is empty without a stack there.
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Brown fired 7,000 on the river and Ivey made the call. Brown shook his head and revealed 
as his pair had been counterfeited by the two pair on board. That can happen when you're up against Phil Ivey as he showed 
to take it with his ace kicker.
on the river, Sam Stein moved all-in for 30,250 into the 29,000 pot. His opponent, Phil Galfond, started to tank and told the table he'd need a "couple of minutes" to make his decision. Believing they had enough time to make it there and back while Galfond tanked, tablemates Juha Helppi and Isaac Haxton took off for the restroom.
for eights full of threes and Galfond mucked. He's down to 58,000 while Stein is now on 90,000 in chips.
and Alexander Roumeliotis had put him to a decision for his last 30,000 chips on the river. Billirakis made the call.
for aces up and Billirakis hit the rail. Roumeliotis holds the current chip lead with 260,000.
. Romanello check-called another 7,300 from Deeb. The river was the 
and Romanello checked a third time. Deeb bet 22,400 and Romanello called.
were rather meaningless and after a count down of chips, Thuritz just had him covered and Lederer made a hasty exit from the Amazon Room. Ferguson stated that he folded top two pair so he was able to escape cheaply as Thuritz jumps up to 155,000.
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. Moore took a stab with a bet of 2,300. It removed Beth Shak from the equation as she folded but Rousso hung around to see the 
complete the board on the river.
which was enough to win the pot. Rousso slips to 46,000 with Moore up to 70,000.