After calling an opening raise of 600, Allen Cunningham took a flop of against two opponents. One player led out for 1,600, Cunningham flatted in position, and the third player got out of the way.
On the turn, Cunningham's opponent slowed down with a check, and the five-time bracelet winner took the pot down with his own 1,600 wager.
Ryan Olisar called an opponent's all in with . He was relieved to find out that his opponent had . Olisar was safe to find out the board ran good for him with the . He collected his opponent's chips and moved his stack up to 30,000.
Allen Cunningham fired 2,000 into two players on the turn, with the board reading . The first opponent called, and the second one folded. The river came , completing a four-straight. Cunningham immediately jammed for 8,100, and his opponent folded without much thought.
David Williams was seen sending a portion of his stack across the table, and while we missed his hand, it was evident that a bad beat had just occurred.
Williams' opponent had the tabled, with a board of telling the tale. The all-player had risked his last 5,900 at some point in the hand, and when the river spiked his set, he earned a doublet through one of poker's brightest stars.
***Update*** With the assistance of Twitter, we've discovered that Williams was holding the when the rivered set sabotaged his stack. We'll let Williams recap the action though.
We found Michael Cooper firing a bet of 2,400 on the river with the board reading . His opponent made the call and shook his head when Cooper turned over for trip eights.
At an adjacent table, JC Tran check-called a flop bet on . We didn't catch the turn action, but Tran checked the river after the and had hit the board. His opponent checked back, and Tran tabled for trip nines.
After hearing the familiar refrain of "all in... and a call!," we headed over to find Rob Kuhn with his last 12,250 at risk.
The flop had fallen , and after checking to the preflop raiser, Kuhn moved his stack into the middle over the top of a 1,600 c-bet.
His opponent called with a stack nearly equal to the all-in wager, and Kuhn flipped up the expecting to be drawing against a made hand. The caller revealed the , however, and Kuhn found himself in a fortuitous position.
When the peeled off on the turn, followed by an irellevant on the river, the pot was pushed to Kuhn.
"You taking care of my money over there?," asked a friend from the next table over, who obviously put Kuhn in the running here today.
"Of course," replied Kuhn smoothly. "Just stacking people with the queen-three like usual."
Jean Malherbe was all in with and at risk. Jon Eaton called him with .
Malherbe did not stay in his seat long as the flop came . His chances of coming back and hitting a queen were slim to none. The turn was no help with the . The river was the and that finished off Malherbe, while Eaton chipped up to 40,000 in the process.