Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi reraised Doug Lee preflop after Lee had opened for 650. Mizrachi made it 2,000 and Lee called.
The flop came down . Lee checked and Mizrachi bet out 700. Lee called.
The turn was the and Lee checked again. The Grinder fired 2,500 and Lee called.
The river was the and Lee once again tapped the table. Mizrachi bet out 10,000 and Lee mucked his hand. Mizrachi showed for just ace-high and raked in the pot.
After recently losing a pot to Thao Thiem, Ari "BodogAri" Engel raised the action preflop and was called by one player out of the blinds. The flop came down and Engel's opponent checked. Engel fired 800 and was called.
The turn and river were both checked down after the fell, followed by the . Engel's was good enough to beat his opponent's and he gained some chips back.
Theo Tran was able to get his opponent to commit all his chips on a board. Tran held a set of deuces with . His opponent needed a lot of help on the turn and river after showing down .
The turn was the to seal things for Tran, while the river completed the board with the . Tran is now around 50,000 chips.
Mike Leah min-raised to 400 preflop and got two callers, the small blind and Russel Rosenbloom. On a flop of , the small blind checked, Leah bet 700, and Rosenbloom flat called from the cut off. The small blind folded.
Leah and Rosenbloom then went heads up to the turn, where Leah bet out another 325 when the hit the board. Rosenbloom called again and both players checked the on the river. Rosenbloom turned over for the flopped wheel. After the hand, Leah is now sitting on a stack of about 19,000.
After all five cards were out on the felt, Thao Thiem fired 5,900 after Ari "BodogAri" Engel checked the action to him. Engel tanked for a few minutes with the board reading . He then made the call.
"Straight," announced Thiem as he flipped over the . Engel mucked his hand and was left with about 12,000 chips.
We picked up this hand hand as Doug Lee and three opponents were looking at a board of on the turn.
Doug Lee bet 2,875, which forced two folds and drew a call from an opponent in early position. When the hit the river, the early position player shoved for his last 2,825 and was quickly called by Lee. Lee's hand hit the muck after the early position player turned over for two pair, scooping up about 15,000 in chips and leaving Lee with a stack of just 13,000.
A player in middle position raised to 600 and Erick Lindgren called from late position. The flop came down and Lindgren called a bet of 850 from his opponent.
The turn brought the , and Lindgren fired 2,100 after his opponent checked to him. The player made the call and the last card was the .
Both players checked. Lindgren mucked after he was shown pocket eights by his opponent. Erick's now down to 22,000.
As mentioned earlier, the 187 entrants to the Main Event here at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas created a prizepool of almost $900,000. The top eighteen finishers will be paid out as follows.