All in for the win!
Wow. This is some sick stuff. Makes us long for a hole card cam. A player in early position raised to 3,000. The player behind him called, and it folded to Greg Raymer on the button. He bumped it to 8,000. Standard so far.
The small blind cold four-bets to 18,000. Big blind folded, and it was back to the original raiser. Does he flat here? Shove? Nope. He re-re-repopped it to 34,800 total, leaving himself about 200k behind. Obvious snap fold from the player behind him, right? Not exactly. He tanked, and tanked, and eventually someone called the clock on him. As the floor was counting down, he gave it up.
And then Fossilman shipped in his stack for the rarely seen six-bet shove. Raymer had 77,600 behind, only about 7k more than the size of the pot. The five-bettor found a fold, and Raymer almost doubled his stack without seeing a flop. "I have to admit my six-betting range their is pretty slim," laughed Raymer.
Editor's note: We've since learned that Mr. Five Bet was Jason "themasterj33" Dewitt, who tweeted that he had jacks.
Donnie Peters
From under the gun, "Miami" John Cernuto raised to 3,500 and Will "Monkey" Souther called from the button. After a flop of , Cernuto check-called a bet of 7,000 from Souther.
The turn card was the and Cernuto checked again. Souther fired 10,000 and Cernuto mucked his hand.
Donnie Peters
Phillips seated next to reigning WSOP champ Cad
Carter Phillips is up to 235,000 and one of the biggest stacks in the room. He took a massive pot from Barry Greenstein to cripple Greenstein down to just 1,000. Phillips was most upset that Greenstein was left with some chips and that he didn't get the autographed copy of Barry's book he gives to everyone that busts him from a tournament.
Even with the loss of Greenstein from his table, Phillips is still facing a very strong line up. Joe Cada is seated on his direct left and then Will "Monkey" Souther and "Miami" John Cernuto are on the other side of the table. Jim Pechac just got moved there as well.
With the initial storm having passed and many of the shortest stacks now on the sidelines, play has settled into a more predictable rhythm. Big pots are the exception rather than the norm. Even when pots are three-bet before the flop, action after the flop is often scarce.
Dan Shak recently played one of those three-bet flops, but surrendered a pot of 18,500 to a single bet of 12,000 on an all-small flop, . Marco Traniello did the same on a board of , check-folding to a single bet from his opponent.
Donnie Peters
Bob Lauria just won a huge pot to move his stack from about 70,000 to roughly 150,000.
On the flop of , Lauria checked to Timothy Burt who checked as well. Sorel Mizzi was the third player in the hand and also checked.
The turn card was the and Lauria fired 6,000. Burt flat-called and then Mizzi raised it up to 20,000. Lauria moved all in for 64,300 and then Burt went into the tank. Eventually, Burt called all-in for 46,500 total. Mizzi was now up and he tanked for several minutes while getting a massage. He asked for exact counts on the stacks and had the dealer pull in the 20,000 from each player. Eventually, Mizzi mucked his hand, folding the face up. Lauria held the for a higher flush and Burt needed the board to pair with the , having turned a set of sixes.
The river wouldn't do it for Burt, when the rolled off and the board didn't pair up. He was sent home and Lauria scooped the massive pot to storm to 150,000.
Three of the biggest stacks to start the day belonged to Andy Seth, Mark Ketteringham and Chris Moneymaker. None of the three players has managed to accumulate many chips so far. In fact, Moneymaker just took a sizable hit to his stack, getting it all in on the turn against a shorter-stacked player for 46,600. The board showed ; Moneymaker had a pair and a flush draw, , against his opponent's set of queens, . The river bricked to set Moneymaker back to about 185,000.