With 2,675 chips in the middle and the flop reading , Lars Bonding, Alex Bolotin and one other player were in action. Bonding was first and checked to Bolotin. He bet 1,300 and the third player in the hand made the call. Bonding thought about it for a few moments and then folded.
The turn was the and Bolotin checked to his opponent. The player fired a bet of 2,500 and Bolotin made the call. The river then completed the board with the . Bolotin checked and his opponent bet 5,625. Bolotin quickly announced a call.
Bolotin's opponent showed the for a turned two pair, aces and jacks. Bolotin mucked his hand and lost the pot, dropping back to 8,200.
The action folded around to a player in middle position who raised preflop before Romanian Team PokerStars Pro Toni Judet re-raised from the small blind. The middle position player called, making it heads-up to the flop of .
Both players checked the flop, as well as the turn of the , but the river saw Judet fire out 1,400. The player in middle position gave his hand up, thus Judet took the pot down. Even though we're running around, we won't desert you.
We just watched Kenny Hallaert send a player off in a bit of an unfortunate beat for the amateur player. The money was all in by the time we walked up, the unknown gentleman at-risk for just less than 15,000 with his . The board ran sour, though, coming to river him away down Broadway.
Hallaert has begun the after-dinner session moving the right way, upping his count to 50,000. There or thereabouts.
Phil Galfond has been on life support for awhile, sitting with around 3,000 chips. In a recent hand we managed to be walking by as a player from middle position made a 700 chip bet preflop that happened to fold around to Galfond in the big blind who opted to move all in. A call was made and cards were tabled.
Galfond:
Opponent:
The cards came out and Galfound managed to hold on and double up, putting him around a meekly 5,000 chips.
A player in middle position raised to 800 only to have the button three-bet to 3,000. Dan Heimiller then four-bet all in from the small blind for 12,100. The original raiser folded while the button made the call.
Showdown
Heimiller:
Button:
Heimiller's kings were far in the lead, and the flop didn't hurt his chances. The turn have the button a gut-shot straight draw to go along with his draw to any ten, so all Heimiller needed to do was dodge the river. Unfortunately for him, the spiked on the river to crack his kings and put an end to his 2011 WSOP.
Chau Giang opened to 800 and was called by Julian Thew and both blinds, they saw a flop of where the small blind led out for 725 and the big blind made it 2,225. Giang folded but Thew moved all in for 8,400. The small blind tanked for several minutes before folding then the big blind quickly followed with a shake of his head. The former seemed annoyed, more out of the fact he had to fold with a player still to act than anything else.
Two Months Two Million was a show starring Jay Rosenkrantz, Brian Roberts, Emil Patel and Dani Stern where playing online cash games, the four tried to make $2,000,000 collectively during two of the summer months of 2009. The show aired on G4 and was a pretty big hit. It only lasted for one season and while the four have stayed under the radar in the poker world for the most part since then, all four are playing the Main Event today. Rosenkrantz (who is the mind behind the upcoming BOOM! doucmentary and co-founder of popular web cartoon The Micros) already busted, but the three others are still in it and doing fine.
Emil Patel, who has already had two deep runs at this year's WSOP in Pot-Limit-Omaha events is sitting with 23,000, Dani Stern has 22,000 and Brian Roberts has the biggest stack with 60,000
Our PokerNews reporter caught the action in a battle-of-the-blinds situation between Beth Shak and the player in the big blind on a board that read ; Shak checked to her rival who bet 500, but she called before both players elected to check down the river .
"Two pair," the big blind said, but didn't show after Shak said, "I have a flush," as she turned up .
Shak's now up to more than 35,000 after that hand.
, Lars Bonding, Alex Bolotin and one other player were in action. Bonding was first and checked to Bolotin. He bet 1,300 and the third player in the hand made the call. Bonding thought about it for a few moments and then folded.
and Bolotin checked to his opponent. The player fired a bet of 2,500 and Bolotin made the call. The river then completed the board with the 
. Bolotin checked and his opponent bet 5,625. Bolotin quickly announced a call.
for a turned two pair, aces and jacks. Bolotin mucked his hand and lost the pot, dropping back to 8,200.
, but found himself dominated by Jesus Cabrera's 
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saw Judet fire out 1,400. The player in middle position gave his hand up, thus Judet took the pot down. Even though we're running around, we won't desert you.
to river him away down Broadway.
and his opponent held 
. The board ran 
flop didn't hurt his chances. The 
turn have the button a gut-shot straight draw to go along with his draw to any ten, so all Heimiller needed to do was dodge the river. Unfortunately for him, the 
spiked on the river to crack his kings and put an end to his 2011 WSOP.
where the small blind led out for 725 and the big blind made it 2,225. Giang folded but Thew moved all in for 8,400. The small blind tanked for several minutes before folding then the big blind quickly followed with a shake of his head. The former seemed annoyed, more out of the fact he had to fold with a player still to act than anything else.
