Hao Le was heads up with an opponent with the board reading . Le checked, his opponent fired 18,000, and Le called. The turn was the , and Le checked again. His opponent plopped 27,000 in front of him, and Le check-raised to 55,000. His opponent moved all in for about 90,000, and Le snap-called him.
Showdown
Le:
Opponent:
Le's opponent was drawing dead, and immediately exited the room. We didn't catch the meaningless river card, but we did grab Le's count - he has more than 300,000 chips.
No one has loved returning from dinner more than Jeff Fielder. In a few short hands he crippled and then eliminated the player on his right and is sitting on a stack of 450,000.
The field has been reduced to 72 players across eight tables. With the elimination of one more table the field will hit the money. We expect the short stacks to tighten up and the big stacks to pound away.
The board was , and Hao Le was heads up with an opponent at his table. Le check-called a bet of 21,500, and both players checked the on the turn, and the on the river.
"Ace-high," Le's opponent announced.
Le turned over , his new favorite hand, for a pair of fives.
We found Miguel "Zeek" Borrero collecting a sizable after knocking out an opponent that held pocket deuces. Borrero had and the board ran . Borrero hit the six on the flop and that's all he needed to outrun the pocket twos.