Over at John Juanda's table, a player raised pot preflop, and Juanda and one other player called the raise. All three checked all of the way to the river, and all three ended up showing "A-Q-x-x" to chop the pot.
"Whoa, you guys play bad," joked Juanda.
"We should leave those chips in for the next hand," cracked J.C. Tran.
On a board of , David Benyamine just called a large river bet with Q-8-8-5 (just one club), and his two pair was good enough to take the pot. He's already up to 45,000.
"I'm locking up like Fort Knox now," said Benyamine.
Robert Williamson III got Daniel Negreanu all in on a flop of . Williamson showed , and the on the turn gave him the straight and the pot.
Negreanu rebought. Jamshidi rebought as well after that previous hand with Hellmuth. Meanwhile, Hellmuth is very happy with his big stack, as he has told the table he only intended to use one bullet today.
On a flop of , an unknown player bet 3,000, but was raised all in by Ross Boatman. Dario Alioto made the all-in call, and the unknown player folded his hand.
Boatman and Alioto showed:
Boatman: for top set,
Alioto: for the open-ended straight flush draw.
The turn kept Boatman in the lead.
The river did not, and Dario Alioto won the hand with a straight.
Scotty Nguyen just arrived, taking a seat between Men Nguyen and Mickey Appleman. Eric Froehlich and Josh Arieh are also at that table.
Alex Kravchenko has just been moved to an empty seat at that fearsome Table No. 15. Quite a crowd of players from other events, a dealer or two, and photographers forming around that one.
Robert Williamson III was sitting around 10,000, and was more than glad to get all those chips in preflop with . Daniel Negreanu was also happy to gamble with RW3. He had four cards, too: .
When the board brought two kings and no aces, Negreanu was up to 49,000 and Williamson was rebuying.