2005 World Series of Poker Champion, and local hero Joe Hachem raised to 2,700 preflop. His opponent in the small blind three-bet to 8,000 and Hachem called.
The flop came down and Hachem's opponent led out for 8,500. Hachem moved all his chips to the center, and was quickly called. Hachem was in bad shape with against the of his opponent, who flopped a straight.
"Incredible. Reraise me and flop the nuts," said Hachem before pleading for a nine.
It wouldn't come and Joe Hachem has been eliminated from the Main Event. He wished his opponents good luck before leaving.
Peter Rho has just been knocked out of the main event.
Holding on a flop, there was never any doubt that Rho's money was getting in the middle, and that's exactly what happened. Rho led out with a bet on the flop, his opponent raised enough to put him all in and Rho called.
Rho's opponent tabled and managed to spike a third jack on the turn, and a boat on the river (), to send Rho packing.
A few spots folded over to Dennis Huntly in middle position and he moved all in for 21,400. Play moved around to Howard Lederer next, he was in the small blind. He tanked for about a minute and then mucked his hand. Michelle Clarke was in the big blind and she began to tank. After about a minute she said, "I really want to play this hand. But if I lose, it's going to kill my stack."
Another two or three minutes went by in silence as Clarke tanked. Huntly sat motionless, waiting for her to make a decision. She counted out the chips to make the call and verified the amount with the dealer twice. Then, she made the call. When the hands were revealed, everyone was surprised.
Huntly:
Clarke:
"What was I thinking for with pocket nines?" chimed in Lederer.
The board then ran out and that was it for Huntly. Clarke got up and moved over to his side of the table. "I'll shake your hand," she said. "Good game."
As Huntly walked away from his table and out of the room, Clarke sat back in her seat and said, "I thought he had aces."
Huntly stopped off at the media desk and had his own thoughts. "I just got faacking slowrolled by some woman with a strap on. She was lubing it up before she stuck it in me! Faacking hell!"
"Can we quote you on that?"
"Yes, you can faacking quote me on that!" answered Huntly.
A moment later, he went on, "So what else is on for today?"
"There's the heads-up event and a teams event later today," said one of our bloggers.
"Oh, maybe I'll go ask her to be my partner when she busts out of the main," joked Huntly.
Zachary Gruneberg has fallen from grace, dropping from the 93,900 he started the day with, all the way down to 6,900 after losing a major race against an unknown opponent.
Gruneberg got it all in holding against an opponent's pocket jacks and the board ran out giving Gruneberg's opponent a full house, crippling the online whiz kid.
Tony G called an opponent's all in with and saw that he was up against pocket deuces.
The flop had Tony G all but drawing dead, coming down , and following a meaningless turn and river card, Tony was left crippled. He said to his opponent, "it's too early with deuces."
His opponent said "I never expected a call," although it would have been more poignant if his opponent screamed "I played it like a set!"
Tony G then lost a flip with pocket sixes against , and hopped on his bike only to find out he had 1,000 left. We've kept an eye on him, but he has since doubled twice and is up to 6,000.
John Juanda who started the day short-stacked has doubled up again. This time Juanda had pocket aces against his opponents pocket queens. The board came down and Juanda is now on 40,000.