After a flop of , Tuan Le bet 3,000 from late position, Jamie Gold called from the cutoff, and Francois Safieddine folded from the button. The turn card was the , Le checked, and Gold tossed five blue chips (50,000) into the pot to put Le all in. As Le called, Gold said, "I've got a ton of outs" as he showed , which gave him a pair of sevens, a gutshot straight draw, and a flush draw. But when Tuan Le showed for top pair and a higher flush draw, Gold amended his statement with "No, I don't."
The river card was the , and Tuan Le took the pot with a higher two pair, improving his stack to 37,000. Jamie Gold dropped to about 100,000 in chips.
Who will be the first player past the 200K mark? Shannon Shorr is the current chip leader with 195K and Anna Wroblewski is sitting on a stack close to 175K.
With the board showing on the river, Marcel Luske bet 15,000 from the small blind, and Jesse Jones went into the tank for about a minute before calling. Luske showed for a ten-high straight, and Jones reluctantly mucked his cards.
After the hand, Marcel Luske improved to 81,000 in chips, while Jesse Jones dropped to 31,000.
What if I told you that in two rounds at one table there were six pots over 25,000 and two of those were over 40,000. How many players would you guess busted out of that table?
Answer: none.
When you start with 50K there is a LOT of play, a lot.
Of course, it did take one player getting his Aces cracked, then flopping a straight all-in. And another player making a double gut-buster after having this stack crippled in a boat-over-boat hand.
Here's the latest banter from Phil Hellmuth: "You throw away A-K and this donkey shows you 5-6 off suit. They think it's a good play. They don't know how bad that is."
Jamie Gold bluffed Tuan Le out of a pot and Phil Hellmuth handed him five $100 bills. An hour or so ago, Hellmuth promised that he'd give Gold $500 in cash for everytime he bluffed Tuan Le. After he tossed the money to Gold, Hellmuth raised the "Bluff Bounty" to $1000.
With the board showing on the turn, Doug Lee, Ram Vaswani, and Mike Woo all checked. The river card was the . Lee checked, Vaswani bet 8K, Woo called, and Lee folded. Vaswani, who seems to be playing every single hand today, showed his bluff of , while Woo rivered a Broadway straight with A-Q.
After the hand, Woo improved to 69K in chips, Vaswani dropped to 79K, and Lee dropped to 14K.