First in from the button, a gentleman we're unfamiliar with came into the pot with a raise to 8,000. Huy Nguyen defended his big blind, and they were heads-up to the flop.
It came , and it quickly checked through. The turn came the . Now Nguyen led out into the pot with 8,500. His opponent called, and the filled out the board. Nguyen reached for betting chips again, and he made it 13,500 to get to showdown. Mr. Opponent tanked for a few moments, then stuck in the call.
Nguyen froze as he stared at his cards, and Mr. Opponent let him off the hook by tabling his . Nguyen mucked, and he's down to about 66,000 after that little slip.
The hand began when Huy Nguyen opened for 6,200 under the gun and the player to his left moved all in for around 20,000. Action folded all the way around to Allen Kessler in the big blind and put in another raise to just over 40,000.
Nguyen took a moment before folding and let Kessler try to earn the knockout.
Kessler:
Opponent:
The board ran and Kessler's boat brought him near the average stack.
We didn't see how his final hand went down, but we know Kai Landry got the last of his short stack in with against . The board was already cleaned up when we arrived, and Landry was pushing the last of his chips across to his neighbor.
He stopped by Will Souther's table to shake hands before heading out the door, freshly eliminated from this Main Event.
Just a short while ago Gary DeBernardi was looking short stacked and in need of a double up. He's been doing some work this past level and just called another player's preflop all in. DeBernardi held and was racing against pocket tens. He caught an ace in the window and rivered a queen for good measure to push his stack near 100,000.
A bit of bad news from the frontier. We were sitting here at our desk when we were visited by one Mark "P0ker H0" Kroon just a moment ago.
"See you guys later," was all he said with a bit of an uncharacteristic frown creeping across his face. It's unusual to see Kroon frowning for any reason, but running your stack from 100bb to 0bb in a couple levels is admittedly good reason to be grumpy.
Duster Ellis moved his 4,400 stack all in preflop and Ryan Eriquezzo raised to 10,400 behind him. Drazen Ilich called the large re-raise to see the flop come . Eriquezzo bet 13,300 into the healthy sidepot and Ilich called. The turn produced the and Eriquezzo bet big again - this time to a tune of 34,800.
Ilich sat back in his seat, thought for a moment and then put in calling chips. The river came and both players checked.
Eriquezzo:
Ellis:
Ilich:
Eriquezzo took the large sidepot and chopped the main pot with Ellis.
, and it quickly checked through. The turn came the 
. Now Nguyen led out into the pot with 8,500. His opponent called, and the 
filled out the board. Nguyen reached for betting chips again, and he made it 13,500 to get to showdown. Mr. Opponent tanked for a few moments, then stuck in the call.
. Nguyen mucked, and he's down to about 66,000 after that little slip.
and Kessler's boat brought him near the average stack.
against 
. The board was already cleaned up when we arrived, and Landry was pushing the last of his chips across to his neighbor.
. Eriquezzo bet 13,300 into the healthy sidepot and Ilich called. The turn produced the 
and Eriquezzo bet big again - this time to a tune of 34,800.
