One Asian player at the table became quite animated, jabbering away in a tongue we couldn't place and pointing several times at the ceiling. We're not really sure what he was on about, but the deck was swapped out and play continued.
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One Asian player at the table became quite animated, jabbering away in a tongue we couldn't place and pointing several times at the ceiling. We're not really sure what he was on about, but the deck was swapped out and play continued.
and was raised by Tom Hall to 3,650. The small blind called.Both players checked the
turn and the
river, with Hall showing down
for a rivered set of jack that beat his opponent's turned pair of queens,
.For what it's worth, Tran is listening to some R&B. Currently in the rotation are Craig David and Ginuwine. He said he has Eminem but it's more for when he's rocking the big stack.
"You won't catch me listenin' to Hannah Montana, that's for sure," said Tran.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
All of the chips were in the middle on a flop of
. Nguyen had flopped a huge hand with
-- top pair top kicker and the nut flush draw. Cheong was in there with
, bottom two pair. The board blanked out from there
and
, forcing Nguyen to double up Cheong to the tune of 17,375 chips.
The board of




was checked to see Timoshenko roll over the
, only to muck at the sight of his opponent's 
.
. His opponent bet 1,100, drawing a raise to 3,500 from Hachem. But it wasn't enough pressure to do the job for Hachem. He snap-folded to an all-in re-raise, dropping his count to about 10,000.
and was in rough shape against his opponent's
. No help arrived on board, forcing Ang to double up his opponent. He drops to about 17,000 in chips.
. "That's ok. I wouldn't believe me either."Both players checked the
turn. On the river
Gill's opponent led into him for 1,050. Gill called, then mucked when he was shown
for two pair, aces and nines.Gill is down to 4,400 in chips.
The flop of


brought about a check-call from his opponent after Hachem fired 1,200 at the pot.When the turn landed the
Hachem's bet of 3,000 was again check-called to see the
fall on the river.This time however, Hachem's opponent took the aggressive approach moving all in for his last 11,500.
Hachem sat in the tank umming and ahhing over a decision before eventually making the call tabling

to best his opponent's 
as he climbs to 35,000 and change.
on the board. Liu's opponent acted first and moved all in, effectively putting Liu all in for about 6,800 if she called.Liu studied her opponent and started to shake her head. "Oh," she said with a sigh. She peeked back at her cards and shook her head a second time. "Did you flop a set?" she asked. There was no response.
"Ok, if you got me you got me," Liu declared. She threw the rest of her chips into the pot. Her opponent did indeed flop a set with
, improving to sevens fulls of jacks on the river. Liu flashed the
but had no full house of her own. She's out.