Phil Hellmuth's pocket queens held up on a potentially scary flop of three hearts, all low cards. His opponent bet on the flop, turn and river, Phil just smooth-called each time. When the betting was done he proudly announced "Queens", taking down over 100k in the pot. His opponent did not show.
Chip Reese moved all in with a short stack holding A-J. Raymond Davis called with 8-8. It was a classic race and Davis' pair held up. The WSOP $50K HORSE champion is out.
In a three-way pot, with the board showing on the turn, Isabelle Mercier moved all in from the BB for 78K. Anna Wroblewski thought for a while and called. Johan Storakers mucked. Mercier showed K-4 while Wroblewski flipped over Q-9 for the nut straight. Mercier was drawing dead and headed to the rail. Wroblewski is up to 682K.
Amir Vahedi raised all-in to 18.5 from the cutoff. He was called by Patrik Antonius on the button and the player in the small blind. The flop came , it was checked around. The turn was , it was checked around again. The river brought . Antonius lead out for 20,000 and the other player folded. Antonius showed and Vahedi showed which was not good enough to beat Antonius's boat, and Vahedi was sent home.