Danny Suied stepped away from the table and asked if his table could get any more difficult with the recent additions to it. Not only it Matt Haugen at the table with a massive stack, but Huck Seed, Bill Gazes and now Phil Ivey are all located there.
We walked back over to Table Ivey to see the Great One sitting with a dejected frown on his face. Okay, that's not exactly unusual, but we also realized that he had just three little yellowbirds left in his stack, a total of 3,000 chips. We noticed Bill Gazes stacking up, so we asked him what happened.
Gazes laughed and turned away, not wanting to spill the beans. "Okay," he finally said. "But feel free to change this if you want." Here's the dirty:
Ivey was in middle position, and he opened the pot to 28,000. Gazes looked down at offsuit and moved all in for about 150,000 total. After a few lost pots, Ivey had Gazes just barely covered, and he made the call to put the tallest man in the world at risk of elimination. Ivey tabled , looking to hold up and eliminate his dangerous foe. But alas, Gazes managed to pair his king to stay alive, doubling up over 300,000 and leaving Ivey with barely enough chips to shuffle.
Ivey's remaining 2,000 went into the next pot, and the small and big blind checked it down through a board running . The big blind showed a pair with , and Ivey slid his cards into the muck. "Where do I get paid?" was the last thing he said as he picked his way through the spectators and out the door.
After Justin Bonomo opened from under the gun plus one, Carter Phillips shoved for 150,000 from the next seat. When action got back to Bonomo, he made the call with . Phillips held pocket sevens.
Bonomo got there by hitting a nine and sent Phillips to the rail. Bonomo's on 980,000 now.
Michiel Brummelhuis three-bet to 70,000 from the button after Peter "Nordberg" Feldman raised to 25,000 from the cutoff seat. Feldman then moved all in for 281,000 total and Brummelhuis made the call.
Brummelhuis tabled two jacks -- -- and Feldman .
Feldman found a king on the flop and a ten on the river as the board ran out .
Brummelhuis dropped to 405,000 after passing the chips over while Feldman is now nearing 600,000.
First in from the button, Randall "RandALLin" Flowers looked down at and moved his final 95,000 chips into the middle. Oops. The small blind woke up with and made the call to put Flowers in a bad way.
The flop brought a pair and a bit of hope for RandALLin as it fell . The blanked the turn, though, and the on the river was no help either. That's the end of the day for Flowers.
Amnon Filippi raised preflop to an unknown amount before Hafiz Khan reraised from later position, making it 46,000 more. Filippi called and the flop came down .
Both players checked the flop and then the hit the turn. Both players checked again and the hit the river.
Filippi fired 56,000 and Khan called. Filippi tabled for top two pair and scooped the pot. He's up to 800,000 while Khan dropped to 390,000.
Luc Greenwood check-called an 80,000-chip bet on the flop of from Justin Bonomo. The turn brought the and Greenwood checked again. Bonomo fired 140,000 and after a few minutes in the tank, Greenwood folded.
Greenwood slipped to 470,000 while Bonomo boosted himself to 975,000.
Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis checked to Robert Mizrachi on the board of . Mizrachi bet 26,000 and Kamberis called.
The river finalized the board, adding the . Kamberis checked and Mizrachi fired 78,000.
After a minute, Kamberis asked, "Is that a bad card?"
Jokingly, Mizrachi reached out and grabbed the from the end of the board and leaned it to get an up-close examination of the card. He then put in back and said, "I don't know, you tell me."
After another minute, Kamberis let his hand go, leaving himself with 225,000 chips. Mizrachi is up to 590,000.