Andy Black opened for 3,600 from UTG, Erica Schoenberg moved all in for 11,200, the big blind tanked for several minutes before calling and Black folded.
Schoenberg's were up against... the . No unfortunate four-flushing on the board and they split the pot.
A hand just developed that turned into a 12-way debate.
Robin Keston raised to 4,500 before Brandon Adams reraised to 12,000. Then the big blind, Jean Thorel, went to call the initial raise not seeing the reraise. It was pointed out to him pretty quickly, and he went to take his chips back. The floor was called to see if this was allowed and confusion seemed to arise as to whether he'd actually released the chips from his hand before retracting them.
The TD asked every player one by one if they thought he had released them. When it was Vicki Coren's turn to offer an opinion she said, "He's French and doesn't understand a word of English. If you want to take the 4,000 chips out of his stack it will take several minutes to explain why your doing it. Why don't we leave it as it is?"
This caused everybody at the table to erupt in laughter and all agreed this should be the correct ruling.
Keston passed his hand and Adams showed to further lighten the mood.
Phil Laak also wants it reported that he, "Loves Vicki Coren."
Sorry Jennifer, I'm sure it's just a platonic thing!
Tim Blake, who has been riding a short stack for the last couple of hours finally succumbed when his could not improve against the of Justin "BoostedJ" Smith.
Scott Fischman limped in, Scott Montgomery limped behind him, Stephen Ladowsky limped on the button, John Juanda completed the small blind and Alexis Gunball checked his option. The flop was . Gunball led out for 3,600, Fischman raised to 9,100, and Mongomery reraised to 28,000 straight. Gunball folded and Fischman went into a long tank, arranging and re-arranging his chips like a patient off his OCD meds.
"I have a flush draw... what do you have? One pair? Will you fold if I show?" asked Fischman, trying to elicit some sort of a reaction from Montgomery.
Ultimately, Fischman passed and the November Niner collected a nice pot...without showing his cards.
Sherkhan Farnood checked the flop to Ivan Demidov, who bet. Farnood went all in for another 40,300, and with relatively little dwelling, Demidov called.
Two hands after my last post, Ben Grundy was sitting on the button and moved all in for 17,400 when it was folded around to him.
"How much is that?" queried Daniel Negreanu from the small blind.
"Ahh, I got these a second ago. I might as well play," continued Negreanu as he called.
"Oh my god, that's a real needle!" commented Mike Matusow at Negreanu's comments aimed at Grundy.
Then in a twist the big blind moved all in for another 25,500. The moved really shocked Negreanu, and he ultimately made the fold after a lot of math and situation deliberation.
An interesting series of events just took place with the final result being an elimination for Ben Grundy.
The first hand saw Daniel Negreanu raise from UTG and Grundy make a call from the big blind before the dealer gave us a flop.
Both players checked, so the turn came . Grundy led out this time for 5,000 and Negreanu made the call. The river came prompting Grundy to check and face a 12,500 from Negreanu.
Mike Matusow stood up at this point to chat to me about another matter but I asked him what he puts Negreanu on. "Daniel's got a ten," he told me.
Grundy didn't seem to think so and called. Negreanu turned over for the rivered straight. Then started a few minutes of slightly edgy dialogue between the two, Grundy the slightly more angry at his "Lucky" opponent.
John Juanda opened for 4,000 from middle position and Mel Judah called from the big blind. The flop was . Judah checked, Juanda bet 4,500 and Judah called. Both players checked the turn and did the same when the fell on the river.
Judah, perhaps wanting action on the river from Juanda with that check, turned up and raked in the pot.