. Rep checked behind. Both players checked the
turn, and the big blind checked a third time on the
river. Porter bet 4,000 and was raised by the big blind to 10,000. He made the call only to see the bad news -- the big blind made a nut flush with
.Porter now has about 119,000 chips.
was drawing live against the button's
. The board came
. Kesselman followed up with a bet of 3,000 and the button pushed for just over 20,000. Kesselman made the call and showed
, well in front of his opponent's
. The turn came a
bested the
; the button had
. Neither improved, and the button's king-jack was enough to take down the pot. After Shulman departed from the table, several players noted that he had acted like "a d*ck" all day and joked that they intended to cancel their subscriptions to Shulman's magazine.
to put him into the lead. It was a lead he didn't surrender as the turn and river missed Hamby. Paul-Ambrose doubled to 7,900 and left Hamby with roughly 18,000.