As expected, play has slowed a bit since the one table combine. The players are adjusting to their new seats and positions with deeper stacks which has produced about 30 minutes of small pot trading.
Blake Battaglia raised to 220,000 from the hijack. Casey Carroll called out of the small blind and Ravi Raghavan came along in the big blind.
The three players saw a flop of . Battaglia bet 175,000 after it was checked to him and Carroll called while Raghavan folded.
The turn was the , action went check-check.
The river came the . Carroll then broke the pattern and led out with a bet of 310,000. Battaglia considered it for about 30 seconds and called. Carroll turned over the which was the winner as Battaglia mucked.
Casey Carroll raised to 270,000 from the cutoff. Matthew Shepsky three-bet from the small blind to 840,000 which Carroll called after several moments of thought.
The flop came . Sepsky led out with a bet of 640,000 and was called by Carroll. The turn was the and action wnet check-check.
The river was the . Shepsky checked again. Carroll put out a bet of 625,000 after a few moments which got Shepsky to fold.
David Lindquist was all in preflop holding against the of Casey Carroll.
The flop launched Lindquist into the lead the unconventional way as it came down . The turn was the and the river was the and Lindquist scored a big double up.
Blake Battaglia moved all in from the cutoff and was called by Casey Carroll.
Carroll woke up with and was looking to eliminate Battaglia who had the .
The board would not be good to Battaglia though as it came and the Chicago native's dream of another Horseshoe Hammond Main Event ring went up in flames.