With about 7,000 in the pot and a flop of , Andy Frankenberger bet 3,500 from the big blind only to have Ryan "Protential" Laplante raise to 7,900 from the cutoff. Frankenberger thought for a long time before moving all in for around 40,000, and was snap-called by Laplante.
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Frankenberger shot out of his seat when he discovered his opponent had flopped the nuts, meaning he needed a six just to chop. The turn was not it and neither was the river. With that, Laplante chipped up to over 100K while the 2012 World Series of Poker Player of the Year contender was eliminated from the tournament.
We caught the action on the turn with about 18,000 in the pot and a board reading . Erik Seidel, who had about 33,000 behind, had just checked and allowed Mohsen Tayfef to move all in. Seidel opted to call off and discovered he had the best hand.
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Seidel's two pair was in the lead, but he needed to dodge the straight and flush outs of his opponent. Unfortunately for the eight-time bracelet winner, the peeled off on the river to give Tayfef the said flush and the win.
Erik_Seidel Erik SeidelBusted 153rd, got it in as 2-1 fav. Now trying to de-steam before I enter the 5k PLO. Could be a long day...June 18 2012
We happened upon the table of Vincent Van Der Fluit, who you may recall won a bracelet in Event #11 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha, just in time to see the Dutchman raise to 3,500 from middle position. It proved to be enough as the rest of the field got out of the way.
"As a Ducthman, I'd just like to say these are definitely orange chips, not red," Van Der Fluit said as he held up two T5,000 chips. "The Dutch national color is orange."
The rest of the table seemed surprised he was Dutch, and were obviously oblivious that they were playing with a recent World Series of Poker bracelet winner.
Action folded to Lisa Hamilton on the button and she put in a raise to 3,500, which Jared Hamby called from the big blind. Both players proceeded to check the flop before Hamby check-called a bet of 4,000 on the turn.
Hamby then checked the river and Hamilton took the opportunity to fire out a bet of 10,000. It was the magic number if she wanted a fold, because that's exactly what Hamby did.