Matt Vengrin saw two short stacks move all in before he could act and decided to get in on the fun. The first player moved all in for 6,000 with pocket threes; the second moved all in for 14,000 with . Vengrin, obviously, didn't know what they had when he decided to call over the top of both of them with . It worked out for him when the board ran out to give him top pair, top kicker and the best hand. He has moved up in the counts to over 70,000.
With the action folding round to Sherif Derias on the button he opened to 1,000 and was met with an all in reraise by Stuart [Removed:293]. Derias made the call tabling and was in a race against [Removed:293]'s .
Derias would lose the flip when the board ran out and thus be crippled with only 5,000 in chips.
Erik Seidel has been patiently waiting all day to find the right spots. He thought he finally found one with , reraising out of the small blind after a player open-raised from the cutoff. The cutoff player put in a third raise when the action came back to him, prompting Seidel to move all in for 23,600. The cutoff called with .
Unfortunately for Seidel, he wasn't able to dodge the cards that he needed to dodge in order to emerge unscathed. An ace flopped, , and then the board double paired out to send him to the rail.
The anchor is up for Boatman
Barny Boatman has just sailed out of this tournament, when his couldn't outdraw Lisa Walsh's , with the final board reading .
With Walsh taking the last few thousand of Boatman's chips, she increased her stack to 19,000 and change.
Antonio Casale saw Casey Kastle raise the button and the player in the small blind call before he squeezed out . Sitting in the big blind, he opted to reraise to 4,400. Kastle made the call, but the small blind went for the squeeze play by reraising all in for 13,000 total. Casale reshoved for about 60,000, drawing a very reluctant fold from Kastle. The small blind was caught, turning over , but got bailed out by the board. The flop gave the small blind hearts and a gutshot; the turn filled the gutshot; and the river filled the hearts.
Catching the action on the flop of Bruno Portaro led out fo 1,200 and was me with a reraise to 4,600 with Neil Channing making the call as Portaro passed.
The turn landed the and Channing instantly called the all in from his opponent and tabled to be a long way ahead of his opponent's . The river fell a safe for Channing sending him to 35,000 as he sent his opponent to the rail.
There are a few female players sprinkled throughout the field. Some are running better than others. Maya Geller-Antonius called the all in of an opponent on a board of . She tabled and found herself up against unimproved ace-king. The board blanked out to give her a double-up to 29,000.
At a different table, Helen Davis held a similar hand -- -- but ran into Joe Cabret's pocket aces . A third player who had been dealt pocket jacks got caught up in the mix. He wound up making a set of jacks on the river, but the board four-flushed in clubs to give Cabret the victory. He sent both players to the rail and climbed to 88,000.