Robert Mizrachi has grabbed the chip lead after he called a 42,000 bet on an flop against Peter Bohuslav before both checked the turn. When the Czech checked the river, Mizrachi bet just 39,500 and Bohuslav folded.
The former $10,000 PLO bracelet winner couldn't help himself and showed as a result.
İgor Gurskiy opened to 12,000 from the button and Erik Cajelais made the call from the big blind.
The flop was and Cajelais check-raised all in against a 12,000 bet leaving the Russian with a decision for his last 60,000.
Gurskiy thought for a couple of minutes before calling all in.
Cajelais turned over and Gurskiy showed , the turn gave the Russian some extra outs but the river wasn't one of them.
Afterwards Gurskiy muttered something in Russian as the other table looked on, presumably bemused by the ace-high call. Another Russian at the table explained, "He said he thought he had a flush draw with the and had misread his hand..."
Mansour Khorramshahi has declared war on Erik Cajelais after Cajelais called the floor to make a ruling.
Cajelais was upset that Khorramshahi made a forward gesture with his chips, something that can be perceived as moving all-in or at the very least calling a bet.
Khorramshahi was incensed and claimed Cajelais was angle shooting but Cajelais was trying to explain how he has seen that move made several times in his career and some floor staff have ruled against the person making the gesture.
Tournament director Matt Savage listened to all of the evidence and warned Khorramshahi against doing such a move in future.
"I am saving these chips for him (Cajelais)." said Khorramshahi. "Everyone know I'm crazy!"
We joined the action on a very wet flop, where Robert Mizrachi had bet 19,500 from the hijack. Marvin Rettenmaier was on the button and he raised to 61,500 and a huge pot started to develop.
The pot grew ever-larger when Sam El Sayed made the call in the big blind, which put the action back onto Mizrachi. He paused, eyed up his opponents before raising the action to a colossal 214,500 chips! Rettenmaier instantly folded but El Sayed shaped to call before ultimately letting his hand go.
Rettenmaier asked to see Mizrachi's hand but Mizrachi told him he would have to pay $200 to see it. Rettenmaier just laughed and went back to enjoying his massage.
In order to win poker tournaments you have to win your crucial coinflips and that is exactly what Sam El Sayed just did.
Marvin Rettenmaier opened to 10,500 from middle position and [Removed:2], to his immediate left, smooth-called. am El Sayed was next to act and he raised to 21,500, forcing out everyone except Maksoud.
Maksoud glanced at El Sayed before moving all-in and El Sayed snap-called.
El Sayed:
Maksoud:
El Sayed stood from his seat and removed his sunglasses as the flop came down , keeping the former WPT Amneville champion in front. The turn was the and El Sayed caught a third ten on the river to improve to a unnecessary full house.
Chino Rheem opened to 15,000 from the button before Kemal Sevevi moved all in for 121,500 from the small blind. Ergenyi Taranuk in the big blind thought for several minutes before he also moved all in, for 331,000.
Rheem immediately stood up, "Ok I need a count."
He then loudly announced, "I have ace-king and two guys just shoved on me..."
A crowd began to form, Rheem continued with a half-statement, half-question, "It's ok for me to say that because I'm last to act right?"
Tournament director Matt Savage shook his head and told him this was not the case. Rheem even showed his to a couple of players over his shoulder before he began to calculate the odds.
Matt Savage told Rheem he would be getting a penalty at the end of the hand but Rheem did appear to genuinely not know that he couldn't show his hand in this situation even if last to act.
Rheem, "At least one of you has to have the same hand as me...God, I want to double knock you guys out...."
Finally after a couple of minutes he folded his hand.
Sevevi turned over and Taranuk flipped .
"Wow," said a watching Robert Mizrachi.
"What can I do?" said Rheem, "This f**king guy has only played five hands."
"I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying," replied Mizrachi.
The board ran out as Sevevi doubled up to about 265,000. Rheem, meanwhile was lamenting the fact that he would've picked up 200,000 more in the side pot as Matt Savage gave him a one round penalty for exposing his cards.
Andras Nemeth has just doubled up with just 38 players remaining. He three-bet all-in over the top of an Andrey Shatilov raise with what turned out to be and when the board ran out Nemeth's hand was much better than the of his opponent.