Now with hat, though
John "Spiky" Racener, his spikiness concealed under a baseball cap, saw a flop from the small blind. He and his opponent both checked it, and Racener checked the turn as well, before calling his opponent's 600 bet. The river was the and Racener bet out 1,200, forcing his opponent to fold.
Racener is now on a below average but still manageable 16,000.
John Aguiar has cracked an opponent's pocket aces with the mighty to send him to the rail -- all in on the turn of a board, the unknown player must have been horrified, and the on the river couldn't help him. Aguiar now on 32,000.
After a raise and a call before him, best-friend-of-Hachem and fine player in his own right Emad Tahtouh pushed all in and found one caller, holding pocket sixes. Tahtouh's A-K hit on the board, and he's up to 15,000.
Chad has been Batista bombed out of today's tournament, his raise from the cutoff being reraised all in by the big blind for 5,400 total. Batista made the call with A-9, but was up against pocket tens. Although an ace came out first card, it was followed by a ten and the online pro was sent home.
Andy Black is on around 10,000 and getting antsy. He pushed all in preflop two hands in a row, once to a raise and once as an open-shove, both times forcing his opponents to folds. "Right," he said, as the dealer was shuffling the deck after his second push, "Let's get ready to rumble." He passed the next hand, though.
Tom Antonucci raised to 1,200 preflop, and Alon Shahar called.
He also called Antonucci's 1,800 bet on the flop; again he called 5,000 on the turn, and finally he called 9,000 on the river.
"Nice call," said Antonucci, and announced a fearless, "Queen high."
Shahar turns over for what was indeed a good call, and this pot has more or less reversed their stacks, putting Shahar up to 115,000 and Antonucci down to 94,000.