Thomas Butzhammer continues to steadily attain won pots from split or quartered pots. He has doubled up his starting stack after joining the action late in Level 3.
WSOP bracelet winner Chris Tryba usually thrives in stud, but today he's having a rough go of it, which is indicative of his summer thus far. Here he talks about the rocky road, eating healthy, and more.
Alerted by the celebration from Edison Shields, we ran towards his table and the dealer had already rushed away the cards of the two opponents that got knocked out. According to Shields, the action was capped on each street, and the two opponents had rolled up deuces and threes.
Shields scored the higher set on seventh with .
His pocket aces were cracked yesterday on the final table of the $1,500 event, so this is a nice consolation early on.
Mario Adinolfi may not necessarily be a well-known name in the United States, but the Italian-pro is a regular on the European circuit. Adinolfi min-raised from early position, got two callers in middle position and the small blind. On the flop, he bet and then three-bet when the opponent in middle position raised. The big blind folded.
The was checked through. Adinolfi bet the river and called with as the winning hand. Shortly after, he lost a pot and is still down from where he started.
We saw Ryan Tepen gathering his things and quickly exiting the tournament floor. By the time we arrived at the table, the dealer had already swiped his cards and two other players were chopping the pot.
The cards had been scrambled, but here's what we saw laid out in front of the two winners:
Opponent #1:
Opponent #2:
Tepen's hand will forever remain a mystery, but he did take a moment to share his feelings via Twitter:
We arrived at the table with a board showing and Daniel Negreanu was making a call of 400 from an early position bet. The 5,000 or so chip pot went three-way to the river. All three players checked, and Negreanu tabled for trip deuce's. His opponents mucked.
From the big blind, Mike Leah fired a single bet on the river of a board showing and his opponent called from the cutoff. Leah showed and discovered he was chopping versus . Not too much to report here, but it gave us a chance to update his chip count.