Both players began with aces are their door cards, with DeMichele leading the action the entire way. Von Halle called DeMichele's bet on every street, even when he paired his ace.
On seventh street, DeMichele checked instead of betting and von Halle bit by betting. He wasn't happy to see DeMichele check-raise him and unhappily called.
DeMichele turned over his hand and held to take the pot with a seven-six low. He now has 40,000.
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A final count of 192 players entered Event #8, creating a prize pool of $1,804,800. The top 24 places will be paid, with first place taking home $483,688. All those who cash will be guaranteed a payday of $16,243.
A late-position player raises to 800, Ram Vaswani calls on the button, and Barry Greenstein reraises to 8,000 from the big blind, inducing folds from both his opponents.
"Just like that, Barry?" quipped Phil Hellmuth as Greenstein raked in the pot.
Josh Arieh was all in for his last 900 against Max Pescatori.
Arieh:
Pescatori:
The flop was and everything looked good for Arieh...until the came on the turn and the fell on the river, making Pescatori a runner-runner straight and sending Arieh to the rail.
With the board reading on the river, Chris Ferguson bet 5,000 and Andy Black called all in for 3,000. Ferguson turned up for a flush, and Black mucked as he headed to the rail.
What a lineup we have over at table one. In this hand, an under-the-gun player raised to 900. Barry Greenstein called from the cutoff, Andy Bloch called from the button, and Phil Hellmuth called from the big blind.
Flop:
Hellmuth checked and the under-the-gun player bet out. Greenstein and Bloch folded and then Hellmuth raised all in. His opponent called.
Hellmuth:
Opponent:
Hellmuth had a straight draw and the nut flush draw, but even when the turn heldped him with the , the river blanked with the and Hellmuth was sent from the deadly table to the rail in his always-gracious fashion.