With 2,700 in the pot and a board reading , Francis Fan moved all in on the button for 3,775 when three other players checked to him. The player closing the action in middle position made the call.
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The board ran out and Fan was able to get the double up.
Ferosh Tailor opened the better to 650 from the hijack, and Ron Lauzon defended his big blind with a call. The flop came , and Lauzon check-called the 800 bet of Tailor.
Action checked through the turn and river, and Lauzon showed causing Tailor to muck his hand.
A player in early position opened with a raise to 900, Nadav Bitton was in middle position and moved all in for 12,300. The action got back around to the original raiser who gave it some thought but ended up making the call.
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The flop gave Bitton a flush draw and his opponent a gut shot straight draw . The turn killed his opponents straight draw as a three would now chop it . The river secured the double up for Bitton.
After five levels of play, its time for the first break of the day. Players are headed out of the poker room, and will return to the felt in 15 minutes with blinds at 200/400/400.
The player under the gun started the action with a raise to 900. Jeremy Plett three-bet to 2,800 from middle position. The original raiser called and they went heads up to a flop.
Plett fired out a pot sized bet of 6,500 on a board of . His opponent moved all in for 15,000 and Plett quickly made the call.
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Plett locked it up on the turn when the came. The completed the board and Plett added to his already massive stack.
Igor Grinevsky opened the betting with a limp from early position, and he was called in four other spots. The flop came down and small blind Ferosh Tailor elected to lead out for 1,000. It folded to Grinevsky and he bumped it up to 3.100.
Everyone else, including Tailor, mucked to the raise. He showed an ace-nine to the table and as he was collecting the pot he called himself "The guy who loses with kings" and recounted a previous hand where his pocket kings were crushed but an opponent's ace-king. "I would have had 45,000," he lamented while instead stacking around 10k in chips.
Igor Grinevsky limped in from under the gun, and action folded all the way around to the blinds. The small blind tossed in the completion while the big blind checked their option.
Action on the board of was checked through to the river when Grinevsky finally put in a bet of 800. The small blind folded, but the big blind stuck around with a call.
Grinevsky rolled over for the rivered pair, and the big blind mucked the hand. As "Iggy" Grinevsky was collecting the pot, he smiled and said to the table "I need a crucifixion tonight!"