Darren Rabinowitz pushed all in for 1,575 on a flop of . He got two callers. The turn came the . Both remaining players checked. The river came the the first player checked, the second bet 1,500 and the first called.
Rabinowitz said, "Good luck guys" even before the other two turned their hands over. He couldn't win as he had for a missed straight draw. He did not realize how far dead he was even on the flop as one opponent had for the flopped nuts, and the second guy had the nuts of for turned quads.
And that means that we've already lost more than half the players who started out just six hours a go. From the 2,105 who began at noon, 1,030 are still in.
We witnessed a pot with Mike Leah, who seems to be accumulating chips as fast as he is final tables. Leah opened the betting for 400 in early position, and was raised around 1700 (all-in) by his neighbor on the left. Leah snap called, showing .
The board came , and Leah's queens held up for yet another knockout, increasing his chip stack to around 24000.
Jake Cody is on top of our latest list but just about 25,000 in chips. On the bottom of our list is Griffin Benger who is busy with other things than poker at the moment.
We picked up an interesting hand where Allyn Shulman was involved with a 2-bet pot in the big blind. Later saying she thought her opponent was on a bluff, Shulman 3-bet all-in and was called. She flipped over , and her opponent showed .
The board came , and Shulman took down a pot of around 17,000. Shulman is moving up the leader board chasing the second bracelet of her career.
On a board of Brian Rast moved the rest of his chips in against his opponents . He knew he needed help as he said to his opponent, "This must be your lucky day" as he flipped up the for a flush draw. The turn finished it for Rast as it came the giving his opponent a full house. The meaningless on the river sent Rast to the rail.