Sorel Mizzi has just elminated Sam Khouiss when his set of tens held up against the flush and straight draws of the Aussie.
We just caught the tail end, so the betting is unclear. The board, however, showed .
Mizzi tabled and had manged to hold against the that Khouiss was drawing with. With that win, Mizzi moves up to 17,900, and is one of the top stacks in the room here in the early going.
Both Chris Ferguson and Andy Black are reading magazines. That's not entirely unusual, but when we got closer, we realized that both men are reading articles about themselves.
Vanessa Rousso was just involved in a three-way pot with each player all in before the flop. Rousso held , while her opponents held , and .
The flop came lucky for Rousso. The dealer spread out . Rousso grabbed a big lead, but still had a few outs to dodge. The turn was safe, , but the river brought the case king, the . That gave her opponent the bigger set, and stole a big pot out of her grasp.
The very next hand, she and another player got all in on the flop. This time, the board showed . Rousso held , and needed to catch up to the other player's . She did just that when the board ran , , giving her the flush that she was looking for to double back into contention.
Those last three minutes contained more action than the first two and a half hours combined at that table.
Mike Sexton and Gavin Griffin got engaged in a raising war before the flop, resulting in Sexton being all in holding . Griffin was slightly ahead, but racing with .
The board ran out , giving Sexton the nut flush, and doubling him up to 5,100. Griffin, meanwhile, has lost half of his stack and is down to 2,525.
Due to software limitations, we are unable to split the levels into separate Hold'em and Omaha sections. As a result, the rounds we have listed as 1 and 2 are actually 1a and 1b, combined to make up a single one-hour level.
So, what we have named Round 5 on our count is officially Round 3 on the tournament clock. And our Round 6 will be 3b, the Omaha half. Two of our Rounds make up one full Level. We hope that's not too confusing.