Level: 4
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Details of the hand are unknown, but Sherif Shady was spotted raking in a massive pot in a hand that saw Shady flop a full house against an opponent who turned a straight.
With the board showing ![]()
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, the player in the small blind had ![]()
in front of him, but it was inferior to Shady's ![]()
. The turn turned out to be a disaster for the big blind, and Shady is at the 93,500 chip mark in the aftermath.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
93,500
93,500
|
93,500 |
Alex Pena opened to 900 from under the gun, and got calls from the hijack and button.
All three players checked the ![]()
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flop. Pena bet 1,200 on the
turn, and only the hijack called.
Pena bet 3,000 on the
river, prompting the hijack to fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
30,000 |
Around 10,000 had accumulated in the pot, with Eric Schaeffer in the big blind going heads-up to the river against a middle-position opponent.
The board showed ![]()
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, and Schaeffer put out a bet for 3,200.
The middle-position player thought things over for awhile, then decided on a fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
60,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
68,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
|
63,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
|
47,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
33,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
13,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
10,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
10,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Max Digilov opened to 1,500 in early position, and got a call from a player in middle position.
The button three-bet to 4,200, and Digilov four-bet all in, making it 23,000 total to go.
Both opponents folded, and Digilov took down the pot preflop.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
31,500 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
Three players, including Tony Cheng on the small blind, and Ezra Mann in the big blind, checked through the turn on a ![]()
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board.
The river came
, Cheng bet 5,700, Mann called, and the other player, from early position, folded.
Cheng turned over ![]()
, and Mann hesitated for a few moments, then himself tabled ![]()
. The two queen-three hands chopped the pot, with both having trip threes with a king-queen kicker.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
44,000 | |
|
|
22,000 |
With ![]()
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on the board, the small blind bet 1,500 into a 3,000 pot.
The big blind called, and Bala Patur, from middle position, put in the big raise, going all in for 18,000.
The small blind called, and the big blind folded.
Bala Patur: ![]()
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Small Blind: ![]()
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The small blind, who flopped a straight and was well ahead of Patur's pair of kings, could only shake his head in disbelief when the
hit the board, giving Patur the better straight. Patur collected the pot, and his tournament run continues on Day 1a.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
43,000 |