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Brandon Cantu is seated at Orange 19, the table known for multiple players going all in on nearly every hand. Cantu hasn't had much luck in those races, and although action has slowed down at his table, he's still taking some rough beats.
On a flop of , Cantu led out for 800 after an early-position player checked. A player last to act pushed all in for 4,000 and Cantu made the call. Cantu turned over for top pair while his opponent showed for middle pair. The turn brought the and Cantu failed to improve, forcing another rebuy. On the very next hand, Cantu shoved all in and had zero calls from his table, only to turn over pocket aces.
"It doesn't matter what I've got. If it's good or bad, it's coming out bad."
[user37786]
Phil Hellmuth has made his customary late entrance to today's rebuy event and immediately lost his remaining 1,075 chips when he ran pocket eights into pocket aces. First rebuy of the day for Hellmuth.
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We just posted that Brandon Cantu continues to shove all in on every hand. For the fourth consecutive hand, Cantu shoved and again it was folded around. The hand immediately after, Cantu shoves in again and a single opponent took some time to mull over the decision.
"If you're trying to get a read on me, I've been shoving in every hand," Cantu said.
The opponent eventually called and turned over to Cantu's . For a brief moment, Cantu appeared to be reversing his luck when the flop came , giving Cantu top pair. The turn brought the and Cantu was forced to rebuy again.
Immediately after, Cantu shoved all in yet again, but no one called. He seems to have slowed down for now, though there's only 20 minutes left in the rebuy period.
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With all the action preflop, T.J. Cloutier was all in heads up against a single opponent. Cloutier turned over A-8, while his opponent held K-7. Things looked good for Cloutier as the flop came 5-5-8, but the K on the turn sent Cloutier to the rail as he failed to improve.
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Apologies if we're repeating any names--it's been a bit loco so far today--but also playing today are Barry Greenstein, Eli Elezra, Humberto Brenes, Phil Galfond, Erica Schoenberg, David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Shane "Shaniac" Schleger, and Bill Edler.
[user37786]
Nenad Medic, who won the first bracelet of the year and nearly $800,000 in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship, was recently overheard saying "I'm 0-for-6 in coin flips." Medic has been playing quite a few hands today without looking at his cards, something I don't think he did at the final table two days ago.
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Freddy Deeb called an all-in by John Phan preflop. Phan held while Deeb appeared to have him dominated with . The flop came and Freddy failed to improve, while Phan doubled up.
[user37786]
We've reached the end of the rebuy period and the players are going out on a one-hour lunch break so that all the rebuys and add-ons can be made and double-checked by the floor staff. So we're on break and we'll resume around 3:15 PST.
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That's the table Sorel Mizzi, Mark Vos, Steve Sung, and Adam Glassman are playing at. The players at that table have made 58 rebuys. Sung personally made 23. Which means that there are A LOT of chips on that table--a table that isn't scheduled to break for rather a long time. Whoever manages to win most of the chips at that table is going to have a monster stack.
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Before the break we posted a hand where Erik Seidel won a hand where he called a bet by Jamie Gold holding Jack-high. That was wrong--Seidel had two tens, not Jack -Ten. It's a testament to Seidel's paranormal skills that when someone tells you that he called down a hand with Jack-high and took down the pot, you say, "That sounds odd...but it's Erik Seidel...so anything is possible." Still, my bad.
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, Cantu led out for 800 after an early-position player checked. A player last to act pushed all in for 4,000 and Cantu made the call. Cantu turned over 
for top pair while his opponent showed 
for middle pair. The turn brought the 
and Cantu failed to improve, forcing another rebuy. On the very next hand, Cantu shoved all in and had zero calls from his table, only to turn over pocket aces.
to Cantu's 
, giving Cantu top pair. The turn brought the 
and Freddy failed to improve, while Phan doubled up.