Layne Flack opened to 6,000 from early position, leaving around 20,000 behind, and Matt Stout three-bet on his left. David Peters put in a cold-four bet, the action folded back to Stout who five-bet shoved for 115,000 effective, and Peters called.
Stout:
Peters:
The flop changed nothing, nor did the on the turn, but the spiked on the river. Peters gave the slightest grimace before grabbing his bag and exiting, and Stout offered his condolences to his fellow online grinder.
We missed the action but Nick Schulman had , his opponent and the board ran out to give Schulman the double up and moving his stack to 150,000 as a result.
Shortly after losing most of his stack a few hands earlier, Mike Leah would get the rest of his short stack in with and find a taker in Layne Flack who held .
Tony Gregg has earned the coolest nickname in poker by becoming the man waiting at the end of poker's biggest games. Since 2008 the mild mannered Gregg has terrorized final tables at poker's elite events all over the world. And like the famed end bosses of video game lore before him, Gregg does not go down easy - if at all.
Gregg is currently crushing a table full of pros, and he now holds nearly three times the average stack at the moment, pushing closer to the coveted 500,000-chip plateau while the average sits at 176,000.
A recent hand saw Gregg check the flop to prompt a feeler bet of 10,000 from the cutoff and a call by Cathy Dever on the button. Gregg sat still for a few seconds before reaching decisively for a stack of baby blues and making the raise. It looked to be about 48,000 or so, but we couldn't even count it before both opponents surrendered to the End Boss.
Mike Leah checked to David Daggett on a board of , and the Club WPT winner fired out four gray T5,000 chips. Leah tank-called the 20,000-chip bet, and the river was the .
Leah checked once more, and Daggett plopped 40,000 in front of him, putting Leah all in.
Roughly two minutes passed before Leah started goading Daggett for information. Daggett refused to entertain the one-sided conversation, sitting silently and stroking his white beard under his black cowboy hat. Eventually, Leah gave up on both the conversation and the hand, flicking his cards into the muck.
Daggett finally acknowledged Leah, albeit silently, showing him and the rest of the table for a flopped set of fives.
Mike Dentale was all in and at risk moments ago for around 40,000, and despite leading with against the of Garrett Greer, he got up and started bidding adieu.
The dealer fanned a flop of , keeping Dentale in the lead, and the turn brought the . Now, Greer could seal the deal with any , , or on the river.
Dentale's hand held up when the completed the board, and he doubled to around 82,000 chips.
"What a great turn!" Will Failla shouted. "His face turned as read as his f***ing shirt!"
Ryan D'Angelo made a move against Abraham Korotki and it looked like it was going to backfire when Korotki made a good call with the that was ahead of D'Angelo's . Things don't always work out the way you want them to in poker though. Well, unless you were Ryan D'Angelo in this hand.
The flop paired D'Angelo's Jack as it came and when the turn and river ran out , Korotki had to send nearly half his stack over to D'Angelo who moved up over the 300,000 chip mark while Korotki was left with thoughts of what could have been and a look of ice directed at his table mate.
As it was told to us from players at the table, Eugene Todd opened the action pre-flop and flatted when Chris Klodnicki three-bet. The flop came and Todd check-shoved all in after Klodnicki bet.
Klodnicki made the call with only to find he was dominated by Todd's . The turn was the and the river was the and after a count of stacks were made it was determined that Klodnicki was eliminated. He sat there stunned for a moment before picking up his things and heading out of the room.
We passed by Athanasios Polychronopoulos' table recently to find the accomplished pro staring straight ahead with an intense expression - not looking directly at Chris Klodnicki from across the table, but not avoiding his own staredown.
Polychronopoulos is usually a gregarious fellow on the felt, smiling and talking his way through tournaments while making friends along the way, as he did with professional football player Miles Austin in the next seat over this evening. So when we saw the two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner with such an intense expression etched on his face, we stopped in our tracks to see the cause.
And we're glad we did... Chris Klodnicki though, not so much.
The board read when we caught the action, and a pot with at least 65,000 was already at stake. Polychronopoulos was in the big blind and had a bet of 50,000 already assembled and moved forward. From watching earlier hands at the table, it's likely Klodnicki had tanked for a long while to force Polychronopoulos' previously mentioned stare.
Finally, Klodnicki made the call, with Polychronopoulos insta-tabling his for a rivered wheel straight. His eyes never left Klodnicki's direction as the pot was pushed his way though, showing that when the game gets going, even the nice guys have to flash a mean mug here and there.