Sida Yuen has done it again. Another monster pot has been pushed his way and after the dust settled he now finds himself sitting with a massive 270,000 chips.
We're unsure how it happened, but we were informed by the table that all the chips went in on the turn.
Yuen tabled , his opponent had , and the board was spread .
Clearly some imaginative poker being played...and who said clashes of the big stacks wasn't fun?
Raymond Wu
"Look at the action at this table!" exclaimed Young Phan. There had been a raise to 6,300 and one call before Raymond Wu moved all in for 15,300 more. Wally Sombero then re-raised all in over the top of that raise for about 55,000 total. The caller of the original raise had last action and about 30,000 chips behind. He thought things over then said, "Alright, I call."
Wu:
Sombero:
Opponent:
A large crowd materialized around the table. Wu was ecstatic to see the hands he was against, bounding out of his chair. Sombero also stood up, shouting for a queen to hit the board. But no card bigger than ten ever materialized, . Wu tripled up to 66,000; Sombero won the side pot, minimizing his loss in the main to Wu; and the third player was eliminated.
David Saab
Shortly after doubling up from 8,000 to 16,000, David Saab was able to duplicate the feat to move to ~32,000 in chips midway through the tenth level of play.
An unknown player in early position opened with a min-raise to 3,200 and when the action folded around the table to Saab, he 'over-shoved' all in for approximately 16,000. His opponent quickly made the call, tabling and Saab's proved to be slightly ahead.
"Win a race! Hold up!" yelled Saab, as the board filled out .
"King-high. The nuts!" fired Saab. "Now I'm back to thirty-two. Yeah! Sharky power!"
Raymond Wu congratulating Ivan Tan
We heard loud screams coming from Ivan Tan and quickly made our way from the blogging desk to see what all the commotion was about.
Tan had called an opponent's all in holding to be in a race against his for nearly all of his stack as well.
The window of the saw Tan slip behind, but when the flop was spread to read , he was put firmly back in the lead.
"Pair! Pair! Pair!" Tan kept screaming, and when the turn and river landed the and , his wish would be granted as he sent his opponent to the rail while climbing to 105,000 in chips.
Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis has taken a substantial hit. In a raised pot, Karamalikis check-raised his opponent's 10,000-chip bet, to make it 23,000 to play on a flop of .
After two or three minutes of thought Karamalikis' opponent announced he was in which quickly brought an end to the hand as Karamalikis mucked and slipped to 44,000.
There are lots of chips over on Tom Hall's table, with Hall, Kristoffer Myhre and Bertrand Grospellier all battling each other relentlessly. It's been hard for short-stacked Theo Tran to find good spots.
He found one after Hall opened for 3,500 and the button player re-raised all in for a total of 16,900. Tran was in the big blind and re-shipped for 21,100, folding Hall. Tran's was up against the button's and successfully dodged the remaining aces in the deck, . With the blinds and the antes Tran is up to about 44,000.