Rolf Slotboom Eliminated
After one limper from under the gun, Rolf Slotboom raised to 1,725 from middle position. Kenny Tran put in a reraise from late position making it 3,500 to play. The blinds passed, as did the limper, and Slotboom pushed for his whole stack of 7,300. Tran made the call and the players showed:
Tran:
Slotboom:
Tran trailed in the hand, but not for long. The flop came and Slotboom shook his head quietly. The turn and river were blanks, coming the and respectively, and just like that, Slotboom's day was done.
Michael Binger raised to 1,500 from early position. The recently crippled Joe Sebok reraised for his last 2,500 and was called by the big blind and Binger. Three players saw a flop of .
The big blind led out into a dry side pot for 4,000. Binger remarked, "I guess you have it. I have sevens," and pitched his cards into the muck. Before the big blind could even open his hand, Sebok dejectedly said, "You got me." He opened . The big blind did indeed have him, showing for top pair. There was no help on the turn or river for Sebok. He is out.
In just a few big hands, Gabe Costner has more than doubled up. After showing down a pair of threes against his opponents missed flush draw and winning another big pot when a bet on the flop, Costner ran his 25,000 stack into just one that is now over 51,000 strong.
John Phan continues to be a one-man wrecking crew. His latest victim was the short-stacked Carlos Mortensen. All the chips went in preflop, with Mortensen's A-10 in bad shape against Phan's A-K. An ace hit the board but it wasn't enough to save Mortensen's day.
Liz Lieu
Exact details are unclear, but after a preflop raise, Liz Lieu got all her chips in the middle on K-10-X flop and her pocket aces were no good against the K-10 of her opponent. The turn and river missed Miss Lieu and she was eliminated.
We found this hand on the flop, with one player already all in, and David Bach involved in a side pot with another player. The flop was showing , and the turn card fell as we joined the action, .
David Bach checked over to his opponent, who bet 10,000. Bach came back with a check-raise to 25,000, which the other player called. The river brought the , and Bach fired out a covering bet of 18,000. His opponent made the all-in call, and the players turned their hands up. The all-in player turned over a flush with the , but was destroyed by Bach's bigger flush, .
After this action, two players have been eliminated, and David Bach appears to be our new Day 1b chip leader. He currently stands right around 100,000. It is difficult to count his oddly-stacked chips, but if that is correct, he is our first player to crack that milestone today.
After losing a few recent pots, Antuan Bunkley turned his luck around against Daniel Alaei. Bunkley raised to 1,700 from late position. Alaei, sitting in the small blind, was the only caller. Both players checked a flop of and saw a turn of . Alaei led out for 2,500 but had to fold when Bunkley popped it to 8,000.