We didn't see the hand in question, but according to two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Dutch Boyd, the 2010 WSOP Main Event champ, Jonathan Duhamel, just mucked a winner.
Jennifer Harman raised to 600 from the cutoff only to have Caufman Talley three-bet to 900. The player in the small blind called, Harman did the same and three players saw a flop of . The small blind and Harman checked, Talley bet 300 and two calls were made.
When the dealer burned and turned the , the small blind checked and Harman fired out 600. Talley thought long and hard before folding his hand, and the small blind mimicked his action.
We happened by Table 10 with 1,000 in the pot and a flop of . A woman in Seat 1 was already all in, and a player in middle-position checked to 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth in the cutoff.
Hellmuth took his time before putting out a bet, which inspired the middle-position player to fold. Hellmuth then tabled the for the flopped nuts, and the lady showed the for an inferior flush. Hellmuth seemed to have a lock on the hand, but the running turn and river gave the lady a low for half the pot.
"Good job, dealer," the lady said excitedly while Hellmuth sat quietly.
Despite winning a part of that pot, Hellmuth is down from the starting stack of 4,500.
We walked into a very interesting hand between Maria Ho and two fellow opponents. The pot was very small, around 3,500, and the board read .
Ho was first to announce her hand, calmly stating, "Wheel," as she revealed . Usually, this would be a scoop and Ho would have picked up the whole pot. However, both of Ho's opponents also had a wheel:
Opponent 1:
Opponent 2:
"All three of us flopped it?!" said one of the shocked opponents. The three players ended up chopping the pot three-ways, bringing Maria's stack to just about 9,000.