Lee Childs has the button in seat 9, Philip Hilm raises to 300,000, Childs calls from the button, and John Armbrust calls from the big blind. The flop comes , Armburst checks, Hilm bets 650,000, Childs folds, and Armburst folds. Philip Hilm takes the pot.
Our final 18 players have re-drawn to seats on two tables. Here's the new lineup:
Featured Table
Seat 1: Tuan Lam
Seat 2: John Armbrust
Seat 3: Ray Henson
Seat 4: Scotty Nguyen
Seat 5: Bob Slezak
Seat 6: Philip Hilm
Seat 7: Raymond Rahme
Seat 8: David Tran
Seat 9: Lee Childs
Outer Table
Seat 1: Jon Kalmar
Seat 2: Lee Watkinson
Seat 3: Steven Garfinkle
Seat 4: William Spadea
Seat 5: Jerry Yang
Seat 6: Hevad "Rain" Khan
Seat 7: Alex Kravchenko
Seat 8: Kenny Tran
Seat 9: Kevin Farry
Scott Freeman - 19th Place
Scott Freeman raised 325,000 from the small blind. John Armbrust raised to 1,000,000. Freeman shoved all in for 5,000,000. Armbrust called.
Armbrust:
Freeman:
The flop was and Armbrust took the lead. The turn was the . The river was the . Freeman's hand could not improve and he busted out in 19th place. He won $333,490. John Armbrust increased his stack to over 10 million.
At the Featured Table, Philip Hilm raises from the cutoff to 300,000, and Kenny Tran calls from the big blind. The flop comes , and both players check. (With the room buzzing about the redraw, the audience pays no mind to the three-of-a-kind flop.) The turn card is the , Tran checks, Hilm bets 475,000, and Tran folds. Philip Hilm takes the pot.
Kenny Tran
At the Featured Table, Kenny Tran raises under the gun to 300,000, Billy Spadea calls from the small blind, and Ray Henson calls from the big blind. The flop comes , Spadea checks, Henson checks, Tran bets 500,000, Spadea folds, and Henson calls. The turn card is the , Henson checks, Tran bets 1,000,000, and Henson calls. There is now 3.98 million in the pot.
The river card is the , Henson checks, Tran thinks for about 20 seconds before betting 2,000,000, and Henson quietly talks himself through the hand as he thinks through the situation for a few minutes. Henson says, "If I call, you'll show two kings. If I fold, you'll show ace-jack." Henson folds, forfeiting the pot to Tran.
Kenny Tran shows as he collects the chips, and Henson says, "I knew you had nothing!"
Raymond Rahme
John Armbrust raised to 250,000 from middle position, Raymond Rahme re-raised to 750,000 from the small blind, after a long think, Alex Kravchenko folded in the big blind, and Armbrust insta-called.
The flop was . Rahme led out for 1,000,000 and Armbrust folded.
The hand took Rahme's stack over the 10,000,000 mark.
Scott Freeman
Our youngest player in the field today is 21 year old Scott Freeman. Freeman is in his fourth year at USC majoring in business. The first rule of business is you need startup capital, and Scott is certainly taking care of that today.
Scott is about to become a rock star on campus with his amazing performance in the 2007 WSOP Main Event. Casey Webb, his good friend since childhood, is here to support him along with pals Justin Moskowitz and Peter Neff. Peter is quite a poker player himself, just placing 13th in the WPT Bellagio Cup yesterday.
Scott Freeman is looking good and holding steady at 5.1 million chips.
At the Featured Table, Ray Henson raises under the gun to 250,000, Hevad 'Rain' Khan reraises from the button to 800,000, Henson reraises to 2,000,000, and Khan folds.