Daniel Cates moved all in on the flop and he was called by Steve O'Dwyer. Cates had the , but he was drawing very, very, very dead against the for O'Dwyer who had flopped quad aces. The turn was the and the river the to send Cates packing.
Dani Stern and Praytush Buddiga were all in preflop, with Stern holding the best of it and the most chips. It was Stern's up against the for Buddiga, and the board ran out to give Stern the win.
"All in and a call, Table 7," we heard the dealer yell. We made our way over to discover a preflop raising war resulted in Dani Stern getting his stack of 115,800 all in against Dan Heimiller.
Heimiller:
Stern:
Heimiller was out in front with his ladies, and Stern was looking for some help. He found it too when the delivered him an ace. Neither the turn nor river helped Heimiller, and he sent the vast majority of his stack over to Stern.
With around 30,000 in the pot and a board reading , action exploded between Steve O'Dwyer and Daniel Cates and resulted in the former being all in for 51,100.
O'Dwyer:
Cates:
O'Dwyer had turned a set, which was out in front of Cates, who held an open-ended straight draw to go with a flush draw.
"I never hit," Cates bemoaned after the blanked on the river. Ship the double to O'Dwyer.